Re: Fedora mailing list migration complete!

2010-01-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
People should be sure to check the wiki for addresses that need updating after the list migration. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

Re: Recover Root Password on FC 11 and Missing GRUB Screen

2010-01-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 09:34:05 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan jonr...@pacbell.net wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 15:14 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Except if you live in USA, where it is illegal to use strong encryption algorithms (or so I hear)... Fortunately no longer true, now that

Re: [OT] perl help on number modification

2010-01-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:24:35 +, Dave Cross dav...@gmail.com wrote: s/\.?0+$//; While it wasn't covered explicitly in the examples I suspect that a lone trailing decimal point should also be stripped so that the pattern should be: s/\.?0*$//; -- users mailing list

Re: Bug triage resulting in no fixes

2010-01-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 14:53:51 -0500, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: I don't know how to put this any better, the 1st bug is in NEEDINFO, the 2nd bug actually has the info, and what happens is that the 2nd bug is marked DUPLICATE, while the 1st remains NEEDINFO. New bugs with

Re: help with... F9

2010-01-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 14:27:44 -0700, Jake Peavy djstu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi yall, All I'm trying to do is get tc running on my Fedora 9 box and it's segfaulting. In order to fix that I think I need a kernel update, but I'm stuck. ...I know I should upgrade to F12 (or whatever) but

Re: How to destroy our pesky community

2010-01-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 17:09:50 -0500, Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:56:01PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/370157/21cfbe742d8b9260/ That's a fun read. Even more fun is the PDF version here:

Re: [MOSTLY SOLVED] Re: Using xandr -- Re: problems with system-config-display and crtl-alt-backspace

2010-01-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 16:20:52 -0800, Paul Allen Newell pnew...@cs.cmu.edu wrote: I tried out a couple of combinations and know that 1) the xrandr command does work 2) switching video to DVI-I-0 shows the same kvm lack-of-focus problem which xrandr fixed 3) after scanning web and

Re: Fedora's LWN subscription

2010-01-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:54:24 +, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Nullmind wrote: If you're not sure whether or not you are already part of Fedora's group subscription, log into LWN. If it says Fedora Project group on the top of the left-hand status bar, you are. I'm

Re: yum update, broken dependency: libdrm = 2.4.17-1 is needed

2010-01-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:05:06 -0500, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: i know. what i was wondering about is setting up a koji yum repo file, leaving it disabled, then explicitly having to enable it when i wanted to install/update from koji. apparently not. I don't think

Re: Can't ssh to machine after re0installing as F12

2010-01-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 09:46:23 +0100, François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote: In this case, I think that Selinux is the culprit: I had this problem too: You can ssh classically (ssh john@machine.net, then give password), but not using DSA public key authentication.

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-01-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 08:27:04 -0700, Christopher A. Williams chriswfed...@cawllc.com wrote: Nouveau only supports 2D, and the OpenSource Radeon driver has had at least as many ...ummm issues as the proprietary driver. So, if you need true 3D graphics support without a lot of issues, at

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-01-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 16:16:06 +, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: You mean as in nVidia drivers taking a week or so to adjust to new kernel version and reach rpmfusion? Wow, that's a bummer! So you suggest we all opt to use ATI drivers which don't work at all on current X

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-01-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 16:01:45 +, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: As for 3D and closed source drivers... If you buy a nVidia card, you can use their closed source drivers, and they basically Just Work. If you buy an ATI card, you can use... oops, sorry... you *cannot* use

Re: which version of fedora to install

2010-01-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 18:50:55 +0530, Prabhakar Pandey prab...@gmail.com wrote: i used fedora 8 but later some of you told that fedora 8 is not that good and i should try f12 or f11 . so can anybody tell me which one should i install f11 or f12 ?? and it would be nice if u tell me how to

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-02-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 09:16:29 -0500, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: I think the issue is that the drivers in F12 are already out of date, and that unless the 2.6.33 (and later) video drivers are backported, or the kernel is upgraded, there won't be a lot of joy. I am not sure

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-02-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 22:31:22 +, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: Suppose I am a newbie for computers, and I decided to buy the latestgreatest in available hardware (btw, this can make sense if you don't want your machine to be obsolete by tomorrow). So when I get to

Re: Blacklisting Nouveau

2010-02-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:55:32 +1100, Roger are...@bigpond.com wrote: snip Then maybe there should be a blacklist all 3d applications until you install 3d. and: Fedora is never going to get rid of the best Free as in Speech driver available for that hardware. /snip Woh! The

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-02-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 19:38:39 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: I think you are missing the point here. Fedora is admittedly a bleeding edge software distribution that does not support the bleeding edge of video hardware. How ironic is that? I sure there is

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-02-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 02:20:38 +, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 01 February 2010 22:58:13 Bruno Wolff III wrote: And look what just came out today: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=Nzk0Ng OH, WOW! :-D I was just about to opt-out

Re: help with... F9

2010-02-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 03:19:46 +, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: I would call this the geek disorder... In a geek-encouraging bleeding edge distro like Fedora, I expect most of the people to behave like this. Myself included. :-) It's not really bad until you start

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-02-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 15:02:38 -0800, Arne Chr. Jorgensen achri...@yahoo.com wrote: My question: what on earth was so terrible wrong with the driver under F10 ? What was the nature of that error ? The landscape for linux graphics drivers has been changing over the last couple of years.

Re: Blacklisting Nouveau

2010-02-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 09:58:53 +1100, Roger are...@bigpond.com wrote: The original topic was to move nouveau out of the way so users can do what they need to do without jumping through hoops as I and many others had to do. That's not going to happen. The people that want to make

Nouveau to provide 3d support for older cards very soon

2010-02-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
The following article has information about Nouveau getting working 3d support for older cards (up to some nv20s) very soon: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=Nzk1NA Since I have some scrounged machines that came with nv20s, I am very pleased by this. This will make testing the

Re: program to read electronic books

2010-02-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 21:00:45 +0100, Andras Simon sza...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/3/10, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Waleed Harbi wrote: He asked for read electronic books and **Adobe Reader still there NOT outdated. Adobe Reader is proprietary and not part of Fedora, so

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-02-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 13:58:14 -0700, Robin Laing robin.la...@drdc-rddc.gc.ca wrote: I say support the company that supports their customers. I would prefer OSS but that is not always the option. Just as using Linux all the time instead of Windows isn't either. We are both sort of

Re: Blacklisting Nouveau

2010-02-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 14:14:29 -0700, Robin Laing robin.la...@drdc-rddc.gc.ca wrote: No 3D hardware support, your software won't work. It doesn't matter what you do or how often you install the software or attempt to edit config files, will it work. It requires 3D support. It should

Re: Blacklisting Nouveau

2010-02-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 10:21:49 +1100, Roger are...@bigpond.com wrote: What stops Nouveau from being tested against Blender, various rendering engines and Varicad, bog standard widely accepted 3D apps, then released as fully functional before this discussion eventuated. This was

Re: livecd-creator failing on F11

2010-02-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 11:29:20 -0800, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: This list goes on quite a bit. My disk has plenty of space (50 gigs) so that's not the problem. Any ideas what this could be? Are you sure that space is available on the file system with the /var

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-02-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 13:26:12 -0800, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: A bit OT, but what is the difference/pros-cons between User Mode and Kernel Mode Setting? Can anyone refer me to some _not too technical_ resource? User mode is the old way of doing things. The only

Re: livecd-creator failing on F11

2010-02-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 13:40:50 -0800, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: Could I still be having disk space problems given the above information? I am running the livecd-creator in my home, does that make any difference? Although that shouldn't pose a problem as you can see

Re: livecd-creator failing on F11

2010-02-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 14:04:55 -0800, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/tmp/imgcreate-DBVzFU/install_root/boot/initrd-2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.x86_64.img' I suspect my increased size in the part command wasn't enough. I

Re: livecd-creator failing on F11

2010-02-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 16:07:59 -0800, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com wrote: Yes I'm doing this on F11. In general building images for a different version of Fedora isn't going to work unless you use mock. I haven't done that yet and am not able to give you exact instructions, but

Working 3d with Nouveau!

2010-02-07 Thread Bruno Wolff III
Ben did some updates tonight for rawhide and I am able to play tremulous now on an nVidia nv28 based card. It's pretty late so I didn't do much testing and there may be bugs. But if you have nv20 series or earlier cards you might want to give it a try with Monday morning's rawhide. -- users

Re: Working 3d with Nouveau!

2010-02-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 01:04:33 -0600, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: Ben did some updates tonight for rawhide and I am able to play tremulous now on an nVidia nv28 based card. It's pretty late so I didn't do much testing and there may be bugs. But if you have nv20 series

Re: Problems with X11 in FC12.

2010-02-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 21:46:52 -0700, r...@dwf.com wrote: So, others seeing this? Any fix? Does your display do EDID? If the driver can't tell what the limits of the display are it uses very conservative values so as not to destroy the display. If that is the problem you can define

Re: Fedora 12 + nvidia driver 190.53 + nvidia GeForce GT 130M + Acer Aspire 5739 = six little desktop on display instead of a desktop

2010-02-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 09:58:25 +0100, Ambrogio fn050...@interfree.it wrote: My xorg.conf is not complete so I wrote the section screen and monitor My complete Xorg configuration file is For your comparison here is what I use on a system with and nv28 and an LCD monitor that has a native

Re: F12 and SyncMaster 2443 and 1920x1600 resolution?

2010-02-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 10:49:44 -0800, Paul Erickson va...@telus.net wrote: I have searched the archives, and not found anything that looks applicable. Has anyone been able to successfully configure F12 to support 1920x1600 resolution with the Samsung SyncMaster 2443? I have tried

Re: radeon driver / fc12 / ati hd 4770

2010-02-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:07:58 -0800, gary artim gar...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Tom -- I'll give it a shot. Any other options/opinions are welcomed -- l'll gladly put a wiki up explaining how and what works if i can make that happen -- don't you just love video cards!? Please make sure

Re: Oddity in bodhi?

2010-02-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:52:39 -0800, Mike Cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: Bruno Wolff III wrote: They seem to work for me. I am using them on an i686 and an x86_64 machine with F12 on them. That is great that the .32 kernels out of koji work - (me too) but can

Re: [OT] Hardlinks and directories

2010-02-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 07:04:58 -0800, Don Quixote de la Mancha quix...@dulcineatech.com wrote: Not just no other user, but no other process of any kind - not even your own processes - will be able to locate the deleted files that you are holding open. It will be very difficult for naive

Re: ATI Radeon vs nVidia 3D accelleration

2010-02-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 04:46:36 -0800, Don Quixote de la Mancha quix...@dulcineatech.com wrote: Someone has pointed out to me where I need to go to download and build the source that might enable 3D accelleration on my ($$$) ATI Radeon 4870HD card. I plan to give that a try next. If you

Re: Leading number in package names when updating with yum

2010-02-17 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 09:02:26 +0100, Erik P. Olsen epod...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/02/10 08:49, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 08:26:43 +0100, Joachim Backesjoachim.bac...@rhrk.uni-kl.de wrote: Hi all, can somebody explain what the leading number in some package

Re: Routing problems

2010-02-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 07:31:56 +0100, j.halifax . j.hali...@seznam.cz wrote: From the LAN default GW (10.255.250.37) - I can ping 172.17.1.50: nbsp;nbsp;PING 172.17.1.50 (172.17.1.50) 56(84) bytes of data. nbsp;nbsp;64 bytes from 172.17.1.50: icmp_seq=1 ttl=253 time=5.62 ms

Re: What happened to floppy drive support?

2010-02-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 20:36:09 +, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 n2xssvv.g02gfr12...@ntlworld.com wrote: I've been using a floppy boot disk as reserve if my HD boot fails, But it appears floppy support as now been removed. Why? Then how can I create an emergency media that is flexible enough to

Re: What happened to floppy drive support?

2010-02-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 14:45:59 -0800, Paul Allen Newell pnew...@cs.cmu.edu wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537741 I am already cc'd on that one. Though I suspect my issue is a udev one, not a nautilus one. P.S. I did get the wx8000s flashed, though the latest bios still

Re: What happened to floppy drive support?

2010-02-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 20:17:36 -0800, Paul Allen Newell pnew...@cs.cmu.edu wrote: Bruno: Thanks for the reply. Let me/us know what the bug ID is of what you end of submitting as I have this feeling it will all end up be related and a fix in one will impact the other. I created bug

Re: where is my remaining space ????

2010-02-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:38:42 +, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: Plus about 5% is usually reserved space for the superuser. That makes some sense on the root partition and systems parts of the disk - although today 5% is perhaps excessive. For other partitions its less

Re: DNS PTR Question

2010-02-24 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 08:11:28 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman d...@cdkkt.com wrote: The problem here is assigning the PTR, since only ONE reverse IP address is allowed. In the above case, which will it be, ns1.domain.com or mx1.domain.com? Discovery led to the last scanned entry, which is

Re: Upgrading i686 vs. x86_64. Just checking !

2010-02-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:31:26 -0500, William Case billli...@rogers.com wrote: Hi; I am using a *fc12.x86_64 machine. I just now upgraded several packages with yum (yumex) and noticed several i686 packages being upgraded as well. Is this normal? Are some packages I have using i686

Re: Using f13 rpms in f12?

2010-03-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 10:22:31 -0800, Mike Cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: If one wanted to install a rawhide kernel in a running f12 machine I guess you could do something like yum --enablerepo development install kernel kernel-devel etc I think at this point in time, you would

Re: Using f13 rpms in f12?

2010-03-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 12:10:14 -0800, Mike Cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: OK a bit confused now - you mean that you could run f13 kernel in f12 provided you also installed the appropriate graphics packages? If so what would a suitable yum command be? Well the normal way to do

Re: Disk error??

2010-03-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 11:02:41 +1100, L yuan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi The hard disk on a laptop shows failing error Disk had many bad sectors' it suggests 'backup data and replace disk. Of course, this test information was generated by Palimpsest Disk Utility on F12. However, when I used

Re: Disk error??

2010-03-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 16:36:57 -0800, Don Quixote de la Mancha quix...@dulcineatech.com wrote: If any of these tests fail, don't wait another minute! Back up your drive *completely* and replace it. Your data is worth far, far more than any amount of money that you paid for your laptop.

Re: Where is 2.6.32?

2010-03-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 14:04:06 -0800, john wendel jwende...@comcast.net wrote: But 2.6.33 has already been released. Graphics and kernels are tied together in a way that makes backporting kernels more difficult. This is part of the reason that you aren't seeing the new kernels appear in

Re: Where is 2.6.32?

2010-03-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 18:24:48 -0500, Mail Lists li...@sapience.com wrote: I use nouveau - and I cannot at present run 2.6.33 or 2.6.34 wihout essentially pulling in a lot of X. Tho' according to satisfy linus' complaint, it looks like on ecould compile the nouveau driver and use that -

Re: Changing the DHCP address of a machine on my Local LAN

2010-03-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 18:31:32 -0500, Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: DHCP requests are, by definition, sent to the local link broadcast address, and can only be received by DHCP servers on the same network segment. DHCP requests cannot cross a router or hop to a different

Re: FC12 livecd-iso-to-disk woes

2010-03-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 02:39:33 -0800, Don Quixote de la Mancha quix...@dulcineatech.com wrote: I haven't tried it myself, or looked at the livecd-iso-to-disk code, but are you sure that you want /dev/sdc1 and not /dev/sdc? You can make either work and I have done so. However some bios'

Re: Nouveau ??

2010-03-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 15:00:03 -0800, Amiga5 ami...@live.com wrote: On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Jim wrote: FC12/KDE-4.4 Where is the Compatibility list for Nvidia cards in Nouveau ? http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia very detailed listings on all nvidia subjects The only info

Re: lzma compression on official isos vs Deltaisos

2010-03-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 16:06:35 +0100, Roberto Ragusa m...@robertoragusa.it wrote: Bruno Wolff III wrote: I did test an lzma compressed live image (non-functional due to no kernel support) for the games spin and found it was 10% (400 MiB) smaller than the zlib compressed version

Re: fc12 create initramfs contaning twofish kernel module

2010-03-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 21:18:07 +0100, Jeffrey Kelling overlordapop...@gmail.com wrote: I just installed fc12 on an existing Twofish-encrypted LVM containing /home and / as logical volumes. The installation went well, but the system won't start because the initramfs misses module

Re: Vanilla kernels and nouveau

2010-03-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 19:45:12 +0200, Aioanei Rares fedora.lis...@gmail.com wrote: Now, the first vanilla kernel (aka the oldest) works OK with nouveau, and the Fedora-supplied ones do the same. However, the other vanilla kernels fail to show me a nice gdm screen, and after some

Re: kernel-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64 needs 219KB on the /boot filesystem

2010-03-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 18:28:04 +, Paul Smith phh...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, When i run 'yum update', I get the following error: Transaction Check Error: installing package kernel-2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64 needs 219KB on the /boot filesystem Any ideas? yum erase one of the

Re: Fedora 13 feature list seems kind of thin ?

2010-03-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 17:37:27 -0700, Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: We finally got a 2.6.32 kernel in F12 the other day. Will F13 have a 2.6.33 ? Yes, F13 is already using 2.6.33. Rawhide is getting 2.6.34. Not much else ? Is there stuff going in that isn't listed ?

Re: yum update failures.

2010-03-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 13:35:56 +, Chris chris1.nore...@googlemail.com wrote: Out of interest - could Fedora not implement some kind of automatic testing to prevent these dependency issues? Whilst there is a simple It's being worked on. -- users mailing list

Re: How to Install Nvidia Driver in Fedora12?

2010-03-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 00:37:35 +, Fred Williams duked...@googlemail.com wrote: Out of curiosity, when does Nouveau plan to be able to offer the same 3D capabilities, if even in alpha-experimental form? That's the only thing keeping me from leaving the NVidia drivers for Nouveau. Some

Re: lzma compression on official isos vs Deltaisos

2010-03-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 17:32:14 -0400, Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com wrote: That said, I have noticed that install off USB thumb drive is faster than DVD by a good bit, even though the transfer rate off a DVD is almost certainly faster. This suggests that seek is the limiting factor

Re: ssh to my computer behind NAT

2010-03-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 19:44:36 -0400, Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:44:56 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: If your mailer supports it, Reply-To-List is preferable to Reply-To-All on mailing lists. It uses the List-* headers to figure out the correct

Re: ssh to my computer behind NAT

2010-03-17 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 17:48:45 +1030, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 22:00 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: The normal reply command is not supposed to reply to lists, just the sender. The normal reply command is supposed to reply to whatever's written

Re: SIP Witch, Skype and cell phones...

2010-03-17 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:50:15 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 09:15 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: [...] So SIP Witch is a SIP server, meaning that I could get a SIP capable phone, set up SIP Witch with a POTS connection and connect my phone

Re: SIP Witch, Skype and cell phones...

2010-03-17 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:42:34 -0600, Linuxguy123 linuxguy...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 10:54 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: You can get hardware that will either talk to phones or the telco for prices that are not cheap, but not out of line for a hobbiest. Unfortunately

Re: Routing choice under user control per application instance?

2010-03-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 17:58:07 -0500, Rick Sewill rsew...@gmail.com wrote: This URL is not for the faint of heart: http://linux-ip.net/html/adv-multi-internet.html That site is for old kernels. Some stuff might still apply, but be careful. -- users mailing list

Re: bruteforce protection howto

2010-03-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 23:17:27 +0100, Vadkan Jozsef jozsi.avad...@gmail.com wrote: What's the best method to ban that ip [what is bruteforcig a server] what was logged on the logger? What are you trying to accomplish? The best thing to do may be nothing. If the attempts are on a scale

Re: tc download always to default

2010-03-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 13:43:09 +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby miham...@gulfsat.mg wrote: My problem is all the traffic is caught by classid 1:10, the default class. Nothing is trapped by classid 1:301 - classid 1:426 At a first glance, would you see something wrong in these? I took

Re: [OT] info about filesystem directly on disk device and not partition

2010-03-24 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:44:36 -0700, Rick Stevens ri...@nerd.com wrote: On the other hand, a partition table doesn't take any capacity away from a drive so there's really no need to skip partitioning other than laziness. :-) (and yes, I can be a lazy cuss) This can make a difference

Re: Where's Fedora Security Spin ISO

2010-03-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:14:25 -0400, Daniel J Walsh dwa...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/26/2010 12:13 PM, Julian Aloofi wrote: Am 26.03.2010 17:10, schrieb Daniel J Walsh: Theoretically this should now work without putting SELinux in permissive mode. If it requires this, it is a bug.

Re: Is there some website to suggest programs to be supported on Fedora?

2010-03-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 19:26:47 +, Paul Smith phh...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, Is there some website to suggest programs to be supported on Fedora? I think there may be more than one. I know that there is one just for games. Note that submitting items to a wish list isn't likely to

Re: Is there some website to suggest programs to be supported on Fedora?

2010-03-28 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 11:36:56 +0100, Paul Smith phh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: Is there some website to suggest programs to be supported on Fedora? I think there may be more than one. I know that there is one just

Re: Looking for a monitor driver

2010-03-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 17:04:26 -0400, Margaret Doll margaret_d...@brown.edu wrote: I don't understand why the Mode entry in /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not seem to have any relationship to the Modes shown in the System/ Display gui. I coded in 1920x1080 in xorg.conf. The Display gui

Re: Looking for a monitor driver

2010-03-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 08:38:50 -0400, Margaret Doll margaret_d...@brown.edu wrote: I did get the Dell E2210H display working on an F2 system. However, the display does not fill up the screen properly. I managed to get the display working by modifying the Section Screen/Display/Modes

Re: Looking for a monitor driver

2010-03-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 14:23:07 +0100, Dave Higton dave.hig...@nice.com wrote: On 2010-03-31, Bruno Wolff wrote: xorg.conf can specify allowed and prefered modes for a device. If you don't define what a device is capable of doing than some assumptions are made that will likely be

Re: New Kernel will not boot

2010-04-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 07:33:09 -0600, Lawrence E Graves lgra...@risingstarmbc.com wrote: I am having trouble with the installing of the new kernel release about 2 days ago. When I install it and reboot my system it stops at the Fedora sign in the middle of the screen. It is hard for me to

Re: New Kernel will not boot

2010-04-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 08:35:19 -0600, Lawrence E Graves lgra...@risingstarmbc.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 09:18 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 07:33:09 -0600, Lawrence E Graves lgra...@risingstarmbc.com wrote: I am having trouble with the installing

Re: F12 crash

2010-04-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 15:27:39 -0700, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Tue, 3/30/10, Daniel J Walsh dwa...@redhat.com wrote:     That is fine, but please do not recommend others disable it. Why?  If it's the root of the problem...  Besides others are free to make

Re: recommend hardware firewall

2010-04-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 09:13:46 -0400, John Aldrich jmaldr...@yahoo.com wrote: On Sun April 4 2010, Jamie Bohr wrote: Not sure of all your requirement but I use Linksys WRT-54G with DD-WRThttp://dd-wrt.comrunning on it. I picked up the Linksys off eBay about a month ago for about $45

Re: recommend hardware firewall

2010-04-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 09:16:20 -0700, Michael Miles mmami...@gmail.com wrote: I'm just using the firewall that comes with Fedora 12, is there better firewall software out there. That depends on what you are looking for. iptables has limited deep packet inspection features. It is also only

Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

2010-04-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 21:36:30 +0100, psmith psm...@fedoraproject.org wrote: you are joking right? fedora is just a testing ground for redhat (think selinux, pulseaudio, abrt etc etc), and the governance is full of @redhat.com people It isn't just a testing ground for Redhat. Redhat had

Re: Which card for my laptop?

2010-04-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 21:39:24 -0400, Andrew Robinson awrobinson...@nc.rr.com wrote: My laptop has a Broadcom BCM4306 chipset. Since Fedora does not support it natively, it is a pain every time I want to upgrade Fedora. And even It should have worked for F12 with open firmware installed.

Re: recommend hardware firewall

2010-04-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 19:45:08 -0700, Michael Miles mmami...@gmail.com wrote: I do plan on an upgrade to a better router So if I wanted to create a separate machine and put 3 or 4 good lan adapters on a amd xp 1500 install fedora 12 and use it as a firewall only, would probably be a

Re: recommend hardware firewall

2010-04-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:57:14 -0400, Kwan Lowe k...@digitalhermit.com wrote: I'm putting together an Atom-based system for just this purpose. Power consumption is not as low as a $50 router (and probably never could be), but I'm adding three NICs (1 dual, 1 single port) so that I can

Re: Printer IDs in Fedora 13: your help is neeeded!

2010-04-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 00:18:00 +0200, Gianluca Sforna gia...@gmail.com wrote: Everyone can help fix this by following the instructions in the test day page.[2] You don't need a Rawhide installation to provide useful feedback, just a nightly live image[3] will do. Alternatively, you can

Re: searching email with regular expressions

2010-04-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 14:23:29 -0700, Nataraj incoming-fedora-l...@rjl.com wrote: Do imap servers like dovecot have the capability to search on regular expressions? What about specific email clients. The imap protocol is documented at: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3501.html A quick look

Re: Busted installer for F13

2010-04-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:59:22 -0400, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Greetings all; Trying to see if F13 is something I want to use, so its installing on my laptop. Unforch when I get to the window of install choices, it unchecks the graphical desktop if I check

Re: Busted installer for F13

2010-04-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 13:30:36 -0400, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Something I am not subbed to, and since I am already reading 40 some lists, doubt if I will subscribe. I thought this should be a fedora problem so I took it to the fedora list. And I _still_ think it is

Re: video hardware advice and dual logins

2010-04-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 16:18:21 -0600, Chris Kottaridis chris...@quietwind.net wrote: What I want to do is have two distinct logins. So, I can log in as one user on one monitor and log in as a different user on the other monitor but just have the one keyboard. Basically, gdm running on both

Re: f12 sometimes is slow to start

2010-04-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:52:28 +0200, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com wrote: There is one little problem. Every now and then when I boot the laptop it kind of 'freezes' and a few minutes later it works as it should without any other problems. I can change to a virtual terminal and

Re: Clamav

2010-04-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 13:39:42 -0700, jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: From: Patrick O'Callaghan pocallag...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, 2010/April/15 12:50 4) I will agree with you as far as to say Linux is not as vulnerable as Windows. That is mostly because it is still perceived as being

Re: gpk-update-viewer vs. yum

2010-04-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 14:35:48 -0700, Rick Stevens ri...@nerd.com wrote: The problem is if you have to authenticate using a network-based mechanism (e.g. NIS/NIS+ or LDAP), then you have to use the classic networking stuff since NM doesn't fire until you're logged in AND are using a GUI.

Re: F-12 and Skype -

2010-04-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 18:07:32 -0400, Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net wrote: Yes, I'll try most anything, where would I get the phone connection for Ekiga? I had to subscribe at Skype to get it and so far it doesn't look like it will work ... Do you mean connection to the

Re: Clamav

2010-04-17 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 20:29:25 -0700, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: Clearly no OS is safe from exploit. The most effective security method employed on Linux is simply not to run as superuser where most Windows and Macintosh users are running as superuser and the software

Re: crypt question/server hotel

2010-04-17 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:49:29 +0200, Jozsi Vadkan jozsi.avad...@gmail.com wrote: I want to put my server in a server hotel. But: I don't trust my server hotel owner. These requirements seem to conflict. What can I do? I can crypt my partition/hdd's that contains the data. Ok. But:

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