Pidgin problems with AIM?

2010-01-13 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Anyone else getting the following error when trying to sign in to AIM, today: Received unexpected response from http://api.oscar.aol.com/aim/startOSCARSession; pgpAMaOXgcgdz.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe:

Re: F12 how to make wireless printer work - HP Photosmart Plus B209a-m

2010-01-17 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Barry Yu writes: Would appreciate any input that can enable me in F12 to make use of wi-fi printer HP Photosmart Plus B209a-m, when connected with usb cable it works fine but can't setup the wireless connection. A quick Google search found a manual for this printer. Which, I'm sure you also

Re: Flash for FF on x86_64 ??

2010-01-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
jack craig writes: Hi Folks, My home x32 host on fc11 with FF 3.5.6 works with the libflashplugin.so just fine. My x86_64 doesnt enjoy such a solution. anyone got a suggestion? many web pages wants flash... :( Adobe has a beta version of x86_64 Flash plugin, that Google will help you

Pulseaudio update is barfing

2010-01-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
The recent update to pulseaudio-0.9.21 looks like a dud. Brief sound effects play fine. But I have the gmail notifier Firefox plugin configured to play /usr/share/sounds/purple/login.wav, a slightly longer sound effect, as the new mail notification. After the pulseaudio update, Firefox gets

Re: Brother MFC210C Printer Install

2010-02-02 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jim writes: FC12-X86_64/Kde There are no Linux drivers for this printer other than the ones from Brother, but they are i386.rpm drivers and I need to install on a X86_64 Fedora12. What other 32 bit rpms would I need to install to get the i386.rpm drivers to work on a X86_64 box ?

Re: F12 and Nvidia video card.

2010-02-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
r...@dwf.com writes: I see a lot of comments about F12 and Nvidia video card, but no solution to the problem (if there is one, PLEASE point me at it, Ive just upgraded to F12) I have a hard time believing that the folks that produce Fedora Releases would actually release a version that does

Re: Firefox using google proxy WTF?

2010-02-13 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Christoph Höger writes: Hi, I am using an of the shelf firefox rpm. Today the strangest thing happened to me: I got an google branded 404 when searching wikipedia. The site is definitely up and running and my network settings must be fine, since Konqueror and wget get the site (see attached

Re: Fedora seems to be connected to the Internet... but it's not.

2010-02-20 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Seth writes: So, I just installed Fedora 12 onto a current model 15 MacBook Pro, and it's connected to the local network just fine, but I'm having a little trouble with the Internet. I can download new applications from the repositories, so I AM on the Internet, but it appears that the only

Re: 64 bit fedora 64 bit firefox testing..

2010-02-21 Thread Sam Varshavchik
bruce writes: however, i had a friend with an older 64bit version of fedora, and a 64bit firefox/sun jre look at it.. and the site he got was basically a horizontally compressed page.. it was like the right half of the page wasn't displayed correctly.. since the site gives the warning for the

Re: firefox lockups after update

2010-02-24 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Vincent Onelli writes: I tried all suggestions, firefox is still not load it appears as if try, the starting firefox ... appears at the bottom of screen for few seconds and then disappears. So it is time to do a full installation? I will wait while just in case there may be some new idea to

Re: firefox lockups after update

2010-02-24 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Sam Varshavchik writes: Vincent Onelli writes: I tried all suggestions, firefox is still not load it appears as if try, the starting firefox ... appears at the bottom of screen for few seconds and then disappears. So it is time to do a full installation? I will wait while just in case

Packagekit complaint: database disk image is malformed

2010-02-25 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Packagekit is whining at me, and complaining that there's a Problem connecting to a software source. More details gives a very helpful database disk image is malformed. Meanwhile yum update shows me the pending updates just fine, and is ready to install them. Then, if I run yum clean all,

Firefox has turned into a lynx

2010-02-26 Thread Sam Varshavchik
It looks like since the most recent update, on one of my laptops, Firefox comes up showing the designated start page, but without processing its stylesheet, so the end result looks like a slightly marked-up lynx. I can hit the home button, and get the home page reloaded properly. I tried

Re: Fedora 12 new updated kernel won't boot

2010-02-28 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Barry Yu writes: During the startup, when I chose the top line (updated kernel version) on the grub menu and then hit return, the round thing at center begins the progress indication of booting into login window, then then window is black out in text mode the frozen with the cursor blinking,

Re: Looking for advise on a special grub setup.

2010-02-28 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Steven W. Orr writes: I just bought a new 1T SATA drive to add to the mix, and here's what I'd like to do (but I don't understand how to do it). I want to add the new drive as a third disk so that the system will continue to boot off of sda. I'm current;y running F10 in 32 bit mode. After I

Re: Sound lockup if gdm pulseaudio enabled

2010-03-02 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Neil Bird writes: I'm concerned, though, that that's just masking the real issue. Essentially, the issue is that, with gdm audio enabled, any normal user's app. will hang when trying to generate sound. This made my login nearly impossible as I have a couple of applets that 'tone' when

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

2010-03-06 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Aaron Konstam writes: On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 15:22 -0600, Mikkel wrote: On 03/06/2010 03:06 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: I am not using my neighbors wireless. The machine is hard-wired to the router but does not use the router as a DHCP server. It did until this morning but now it does not.

Re: Wireless stopped working- F12

2010-03-10 Thread Sam Varshavchik
woodson2 writes: I installed F12 around the time it was released and it picked up my wireless card and worked like a charm.Suddenly last week everything stopped working and I receive what appears to be a driver error when wlan0 tries to load. Error for wireless request Set Mode (8B06) :

Re: What is IP Address ::1 ?

2010-03-17 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jonathan Ryshpan writes: Fetchmail produced a number of errors like: connection to localhost:smtp [::1/25] failed: Connection refused. These appeared to be caused by this /etc/hosts file: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4

Pairing to a Nokia 7020

2010-03-22 Thread Sam Varshavchik
After some futzing around, I managed to pair with my laptop with this phone. I think. The bluetooth applet's dropdown window does not show the phone in its main dropdown list. It shows my other bluetooth device. However, I can open Send files to device…, select some files, and the next dialog

Re: Pairing to a Nokia 7020

2010-03-22 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Clint Dilks writes: On 23/03/10 14:46, Sam Varshavchik wrote: After some futzing around, I managed to pair with my laptop with this phone. I think. The bluetooth applet's dropdown window does not show the phone in its main dropdown list. It shows my other bluetooth device. However, I can

Re: N wifi broke after kernel update

2010-03-31 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Mail Lists writes: Wireless stopped working after latest kernel update. It connects and works fine using wired/ It connects and works fine with wireless until I use it for more than a host check and a ping check. Shortly after trying to use the connection (heavy load from chrome

Re: Fedora 12 install trashed boot sector of hard rive

2010-04-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jeff Kittle writes: Hi Trying to install Fedora 12 x86_64 and the disk partition tool hung. Had to power down machine. Now when I try to install, it always goes To the basic text type of install and tells me I have no hard drive defined. I need some answers please Most likely you had a

Re: Fedora 12 install trashed boot sector of hard rive

2010-04-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jeff Kittle writes: Gparted didn’t work, it aborted with a disk error Classical symptom of a dead hard drive. Stick a fork in it, it's done. pgpHnfeEWuxEn.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Strange msgs from restore;

2010-04-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
George R Goffe writes: Howdy, I'm trying to copy my boot partition (and others) to a new drive with dump/restore pipes. (cd /rb.boot  ; /sbin/dump -f - /dev/sda1 | /sbin/restore -rf -) I get a bunch of messages I've never seen before; here's a sample:

Re: USB Bluetooth Recommendations

2010-04-06 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Fedora User writes: Fedora 12 Application=Connect mobile phone to laptop. Any suggestions on what is known to work would be appreciated. Are you certain that this is the only way you can tether to your phone? Modern phones also offer a mini or a micro USB jack. Just for giggles, I plugged

Re: Upgrade from FC10 to FC11 Going Badly

2010-04-18 Thread Sam Varshavchik
philb...@ptd.net writes: Hi, My upgrade from FC10 to FC11 is going badly. Upgrade was going ok until an unrecoverable error occurred during CD 3 that forced an immediate reboot. I ran rescue environment, then received a message to run command 'chroot /mnt/sysimage', which I did. Then rebooted

Re: F13 Delayed-Please Include OpenOffice On LiveCD...

2010-05-18 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jesse Palser writes: On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 22:17 +0100, Sam Sharpe wrote: I'm sure I am not alone in anxiously awaiting your insight into which 1/3 of the packages you think should be dropped from the LiveCD in order to provide OpenOffice... Live CD is actually a compressed squashfs

Re: Screensaver weirdness with nvidia/nouveau

2010-05-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Andrew Haley writes: I wonder if anyone else has seen this. This is F12, gnome, nouveau video driver. I have my screensaver setup as Regard computer as idle after 1 minute Power management: Put display to sleep when inactive for 5 minutes Sometimes the screen blanks, sometimes it doesn't.

Re: Updating

2010-05-21 Thread Sam Varshavchik
terry writes: do I need pinyin engine and open phrasedb for chinese since I use English. and how do i keep the updater from offering it. Remove the older versions of these packages which you already have installed. You are prompted to update to newer versions of any packages you have

Adjust remaining battery power warning threshold

2010-05-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Right now, Gnome shows an alert bubble when I have somewhere between 15 and 20 minutes remaining on battery power (varies). When there's a couple of minutes left, an automatic shutdown gets initiated. I would like to adjust the thresholds. I want to be alerted when I have about 30 minutes of

Re: tricky perl question - ascending order

2010-05-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jozsi Vadkan writes: or maybe in bash.. script/one liner e.g.: input: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=pMZPEsMZ i want to make this output from it: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=kH8VxT0A So from the input, i want to make an ascendant order, how many things are under a SOMETHING-XX You

ABRT is not reporting my bugs

2010-05-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Several times I had ABRT claim that my kernel oops report was succesfully uploaded, yet I cannot find the bug reports in Bugzilla. I have my Bugzilla login ID and password set in the bugzilla ABRT plugin. I don't think my oops reports are going anywhere. Any suggestions as to what might be

Re: ABRT is not reporting my bugs

2010-05-24 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Rahul Sundaram writes: On 05/25/2010 03:43 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Rahul Sundaram writes: On 05/24/2010 08:15 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Several times I had ABRT claim that my kernel oops report was succesfully uploaded, yet I cannot find the bug reports in Bugzilla. I have my Bugzilla

Re: Adjust remaining battery power warning threshold

2010-05-24 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Matthew Saltzman writes: On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 20:48 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 05/23/2010 08:38 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Right now, Gnome shows an alert bubble when I have somewhere between 15 and 20 minutes remaining on battery power (varies). When there's a couple of minutes left

Re: Adjust remaining battery power warning threshold

2010-05-24 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Matthew Saltzman writes: Not always. If you allow the battery to drain just a percent or two and plug it back in, it won't charge. If you drain it a bit more, it will. The Thinkpad battery manager from Lenovo takes that a step further, I think this battery manager thingy is some custom job

Re: Regarding Get Fedora page

2010-05-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Rahul Sundaram writes: On 05/28/2010 04:53 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: So, you are suggesting that existing users that are aware of http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ bookmark those pages, yes? What about newcomers to Linux and Fedora? How would they determine they should bookmark these pages?

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-28 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht writes: d...@chatham.org writes: I cannot get FC13 to install. I get a repeating /dev/fd0 error, which sorta makes sense since the machine doesn't have a floppy. However, it never gets past the error. Has anyone seen this one? Yes. Same here on my Asus M3A78T (AMD)

How to resize RAID-1 partitions (mdraid)

2010-05-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I have a rack server with two drives, partitioned identically and assembled into RAID-1 arrays using mdraid. No CD/DVD drive. There is a USB port. Don't know if the server's BIOS will boot off a USB drive. I upgrade the server using pxeboot. I want to juggle these partitions around. It's not

Re: How to resize RAID-1 partitions (mdraid)

2010-05-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Bruno Wolff III writes: On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:31:11 -0400, Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: I want to juggle these partitions around. It's not clear to me if parted will handle RAID partitions. I think I should resize each partition on each drive identically, and parted

Desktop effects -- yeah!

2010-05-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
For the first time ever, I have eye candy, thanks to mesa-dri-drivers-experimental, on my laptop with an NV40 chip. Kudos all around. This is quite an accomplishment. pgpRYgklZYUOX.pgp Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Desktop effects -- yeah!

2010-05-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Rahul Sundaram writes: On 05/29/2010 08:52 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: For the first time ever, I have eye candy, thanks to mesa-dri-drivers-experimental, on my laptop with an NV40 chip. Kudos all around. This is quite an accomplishment. I assume you are referring to Compiz here. Have you

Re: How to resize RAID-1 partitions (mdraid)

2010-05-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Roberto Ragusa writes: Sam Varshavchik wrote: That bad news, since these are existing partitions, so presumably the raid metadata is at the end. The good news is that I took a look at the current parted online manual, and it looks like there's some support in parted now. The current version

Compiz configuration problem

2010-05-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I have Audible Bell checked in ccsm, but echo -e '\007' from a gnome-terminal window does not play the alert sound. I get the alert sound if I turn off compiz, or if I manually play it in Preferences → Sound. My audio configuration is fine. I played with other various settings in ccsm, but I

Re: How to resize RAID-1 partitions (mdraid)

2010-05-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Roberto Ragusa writes: I never used parted, so if I had to achieve what you want I'd try something completely different. You have to use something to adjust the size of the ext3 filesystem. Growing the underlying mdraid device is not sufficient. Once the underlying block device is larger,

Re: preupgrade: not enough space again

2010-05-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Konstantin Svist writes: On 05/29/2010 11:39 AM, Alan Evans wrote: Preupgrade is complaining that I don't have enough space in /boot/upgrade. How much space is needed? Preupgrade is not telling me. It *did* tell me that I could continue if I had a wired network connection. I do have, so I

Power management capacity dialog removed in F13

2010-05-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
In F12, the left mouse button over the battery icon opened a dropped down menu with a Laptop battery menu entry. Selecting the menu entry opened a small dialog with the battery's details, specifically the battery's current capacity, in watts, its original capacity, in watts, and its current

Re: Fedora 13 Upgrade Going Badly

2010-05-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
philbrog writes: The system installed without any error messages, then when I re-boot I see several error messages, then these messages repeated over and over: init: tty (/dev/tty2) main process () terminated with status 1 init: tty (/dev/tty2) main process () ended, respawning init:

Re: Monitor disconnects (?) in F13

2010-05-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Patrick O'Callaghan writes: The only recourse seems to be a hard reset as there's no reaction to the keyboard or mouse. I haven't yet tried ssh from another machine to poke around. If anyone tells me what to look for I'll be happy to do it next time. Try the ssh. This sounds like a kernel

Re: Fedora 13 Upgrade Going Badly

2010-05-31 Thread Sam Varshavchik
philbrog writes: No entries in /var/log/messages since May 30 18:22 US Eastern Time. On Mon, 31 May 2010 09:50:13 -0400, Mike Williams dmikewilli...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:35 AM, philbrog philb...@ptd.net wrote: I ran /sbin/mingetty /dev/tty5 from single user mode, and

Re: Removing/Cemsoring bad Fedora mirrors?

2010-06-02 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Daniel B. Thurman writes: One would think that yum can detect hangs and move on to the next mirror to pick up the slack, but this is not the case, or so I am led to believe... It's been my consistent experience that yum waits about 30 seconds or so, before giving up and going to the next

Re: Why are 0 karma updates still being released?

2010-06-02 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Mike Fedyk writes: Pushed to testing and then to stable a few days later with zero karma. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/bti-026-1.fc12 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/vidalia-0.2.9-1.fc12 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/EekBoek-2.00.02-1.fc12

Does ccsm work with nouveau?

2010-06-03 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Is there anyone here who has: 1) Installed the experimental DRI drivers and 2) Who is using nouveau with an Nvidia NV4x chipset (geforce go 6600 is what I got myself) and 3) Who enabled compiz in desktop effects and 4) Who used ccsm, and actually managed to get ccsm to do something? I

Re: Does ccsm work with nouveau?

2010-06-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Marko Vojinovic writes: On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: I can run ccsm without any apparent errors. I can choose to enable/disable various plugins ccsm offers me, through its interface. But that's pretty much it. I can see nothing that comes out

Re: How do I associate *.jnlp files to Java Webstart (javaws) on GNOME?

2010-06-05 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Andre Costa writes: All JNLP links behave the same. Try this one for example: URL:http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorialJWS/uiswing/learn/ex6/ CelsiusConverter.jnlphttp://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorialJWS/uiswing/le arn/ex6/CelsiusConverter.jnlp Works for me. Firefox prompts me to open

No terminal bell in compiz

2010-06-05 Thread Sam Varshavchik
In gnome-terminal, echo -e '\007' plays the alert sound that's set in Preferences → Sound. When I start Compiz, the alert sound is no longer played. The Audible Bell setting in Compiz config settings is definitely enabled, but the alert sound does not get played. If I stop Compiz, the

Re: battery botched f11 to f12 upgrade (macppc-ibookG4)

2010-06-09 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Joel Rees writes: Anybody want to give give me any advice how to proceed before I go and do something really stupid? (The obligatory excuse: It was plugged in. The power splitter has individual switches and I had switched the outlet off while the notebook was powered down earlier in the

Re: battery botched f11 to f12 upgrade (macppc-ibookG4)

2010-06-10 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Joel Rees writes: Ran for ten or twenty minutes and finished with no output. No news is good news in this case? Or bad? Correct. That's good news. Weed those out. For what's left, run rpm -q again to get the version of both the old and the new package, then rpm -e the old one. Ouch.

Re: Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

2010-06-10 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Marvin Kosmal writes: HI I have FC12 and am thinking of going to FC13. Will I have the same options? I was thinking FC13 would overlay FC12 making it FC13... Is that not going to happen.?? With the same partitions.. No, this will be a fairly simple upgrade. pgpqRRaDdaJbR.pgp

Re: Thoughts on floppy disks

2010-06-10 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Timothy Murphy writes: I was recently following the advice in the Fedora-13 Installation Guide to setup a pxeboot server, and it recommended that one should read the syslinux documentation in /usr/share/doc/syslinux-3.84/syslinux.txt . (Actually, the Guide says syslinux.doc , but that seems to

Re: battery botched f11 to f12 upgrade (macppc-ibookG4)

2010-06-10 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Joel Rees writes: On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:08:09 -0400 Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: I've never understood the appeal of preupgrade. It feels like it knows more about what's going on than the netinstall CD, for instance. But that's because a lot of the work is being done

Re: repeatable kernel freeze

2010-06-16 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Joe Conway writes: Upon upgrade to Fedora 13 and the 2.6.33 kernel, the problem has become better in that I have not seen a hang during the nightly crons. However, now I can freeze the kernel on demand by copying a large file via ssh (scp or rsync). Perhaps relevant is that those cron nightly

Re: Restart F-13 download?

2010-06-16 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Bob Goodwin writes: I downloaded about 600 megs of Fedora-13-i386-DVD.iso starting from http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-all and a thunderstorm came along and blocked my path to the satellite. A message popped up indicating the download was finished. Of course it should

Re: repeatable kernel freeze

2010-06-16 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Joe Conway writes: On 06/16/2010 05:39 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: 2) Using kexec-tools to set up a recovery kernel. Adding the crashkernel parameter to your kernel boot prompt, reserving 128MB of your RAM for a recovery kernel and a small boot image. When your running kernel crashes

Re: Is NetworkManager forcing 1Mb/s rate?

2010-06-17 Thread Sam Varshavchik
david briley writes: Hi all, I've been battling this issue: my wireless speeds are grindingly slow. iwconfig while connected returns: wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:onigiri Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point: 00:21:7C:9D:CB:61 Bit Rate=1 Mb/s

Re: 32bit Vs 64bit OS

2010-06-17 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Monty wig writes: Hi Gurus, Can someone please point me the right direction on the difference between 32bit and 64bit OS? From a user perspective, the major difference is that there is no practical Flash plugin for 64 bit. If you need to watch Youboob, you'll have to stick to i386. At

Re: 32bit Vs 64bit OS

2010-06-18 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Mike Chambers writes: On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 21:37 +0800, Steve Underwood wrote: Its true that the 64 bit build of some apps can be slower than the 32 bit builds. However, its rarely more than a few percent. Hardly noticeable, really. On the other hand, many compute intensive applications

Re: Calculating the target of a symlink

2010-06-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Patrick O'Callaghan writes: A script I'm writing needs to work out the target of a symbolic link, i.e. given: $ touch foo $ ln -s foo bar the function should print bar when given foo as a parameter. The manual says ls -L should do this, but it doesn't seem to work: $ touch foo $ ln -s foo

Re: Can't get Network Manager to come up on bar

2010-06-22 Thread Sam Varshavchik
David Bartmess writes: I hadn't done anything with this laptop (An HP Pavilion ZV5000) since I upgraded to F13. But now when I start it up and logon, I don't see the NetworkManager icon on the bar anymore, and I can't connect to the wireless AP... Any ideas where to start debugging this?

Re: Minimum Required RPM Packages for Running Fedora

2010-07-14 Thread Sam Varshavchik
siavash ghiasvand writes: did you try google? i think not, else you 'would have'/'should have' mentioned doing so. so, as a guide to what you want to do, an 'google linux advanced' search of minimal+system, with quotes and '+' sign gives 4,470 hits; g Dear g, For sure I've googled it

Re: Trying to get eagle pcb software installed on F13 x64

2010-07-15 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Mick M. writes: Hi; I am getting into the arduino world. There is a company called seeeduino that will do pcb's for you. (http://www.seeedstudio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page) This is all new to me, I make my own pcb;s the old way. Anyway I tried to install the eagle package:

Re: exclude in yum.conf and yumex.conf

2010-07-21 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jim Tate writes: FC13-i686 I do not want to update the Fedora kernel, kernel-headers. I put in yum.conf and yumex.conf , exclude=kernel and exclude=kernel-headers but yumex still tries to update the kernel. Why ? I do not have any kmods or kernel-devel installed Only one exclude

Virtualization for dummies

2010-08-07 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I'm planning on taking a plunge into virtualization. I need to retire an ancient server, and I'm about to order a new kit to replace it. Given that it's new hardware, I expect to get something that supports hardware virtualization (it's going to be a real server, and not some consumer-oriented

List of compatible USB-Audio devices

2010-08-09 Thread Sam Varshavchik
http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x319.html helpfully says: USB audio systems such as speakers normally comply with the USB audio class specification. If your audio device does not comply with the specification, it will not work with Linux at this time. Googling doesn't help me finding an

Re: flash-plugin-10.1.82.76 not working within SELinux sandbox

2010-08-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht writes: Christoph A. cas...@gmail.com writes: If I open about:plugins in a sandboxed firefox flash does not even show up. First I thought that flash is installed locally in ~/.mozilla/plugins but that was not the case. That folder is empty. Maybe there is just a missing

Is swap really needed when RAM's aplenty

2010-08-18 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I'll probably have a new server with 16 gigs of RAM on the way, soon. With this amount of RAM being sufficient, do I really need a swap partition set up? I do understand that a swap partition is needed for hibernation, but this server does not need to hibernate. pgpfNvSVersCu.pgp

Re: Question about Bluetooth

2010-08-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
JD writes: Hi, If I boot up while the usb bluetooth is plugged in, I do not see the bluetooth icon on the bar (Gnome desktop). But if I unplug it and replug it back in, the icon appears and then I can use the laptop mouse pad to click it and connect to the bluetooth mouse. Is this the

Random kernel update breakage

2010-08-24 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Every once in a while, something breaks when a kernel update gets installed. It doesn't happen every time, I'd say that once in every thirty or so kernel updates, grub fails to come up after a subsequent reboot. This is just a minor annoyance -- I'd have to boot the install CD in rescue mode,

Re: Random kernel update breakage

2010-08-25 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Gilboa Davara writes: On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 22:29 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Every once in a while, something breaks when a kernel update gets installed. It doesn't happen every time, I'd say that once in every thirty or so kernel updates, grub fails to come up after a subsequent reboot

Re: Random kernel update breakage

2010-08-25 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Steve Blackwell writes: On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:14:48 +0300 Gilboa Davara gilb...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 22:29 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Every once in a while, something breaks when a kernel update gets installed. It doesn't happen every time, I'd say that once in every

Re: Random kernel update breakage

2010-08-25 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Michael Schwendt writes: My theory is that if the MBR is unmodified when the problem is encountered, something may have moved GRUB's stage* files in a way it couldn't find them anymore in their previous location. Then it would load and execute unexpected garbage. Since the boot record doesn't

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Quan Qiu writes: « HTML content follows » Thanks for reply. 1.  Where did the imported files come from? Those files were copied from Windows XP through ssh. 2.  Are you certain that the file names are in UTF8 and not, for example, GB2312? Most of files are .doc or .xls. Do you know how to

Re: Files named in Chinese characters couldn't display properly in Fedora 12

2010-08-31 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Quan Qiu writes: Thanks a lot. You are very right about this problem! Now, Fedora can display Chinese file names properly although the font doesn't look pretty. :-D One more question, when I used Putty to SSH the server, all files named in Chinese couldn't display properly. Is that because

Re: Problems installing with multiple drives

2010-09-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Emmett Culley writes: I suppose I should put in a bug report, and I will, but I'd like to know if I am the only on experiencing this issue. Not with the last couple of Fedora releases, but before then, on one of my machines Anaconda would consistently get the drive order wrong. Before

Anyone know what's going on with Livna?

2010-09-06 Thread Sam Varshavchik
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Re: Problems installing with multiple drives

2010-09-08 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Emmett Culley writes: For me this problem has been there since Fedora 12, with no problems before that. Actually, that would be about the time the problems stopped for me. This is one of these things that are devilishly hard to get right, for everyone. In my case device.map is always the

Docs for kernel boot parameters

2010-09-18 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I just did a fresh F13 install on a server with a softraid setup that's similar to a setup on a different existing server. The other server was upgraded to F13, this one is a fresh install. Both servers, raid-wise, look the same: two disks with RAID1 ext3 partitions. This is the mouthful that

gdm different behavior with identical configuration

2010-09-18 Thread Sam Varshavchik
My /etc/gdm/custom.conf file is below. Same contents on two server. On the first server, gdm shows a countdown clock, then automatically logs me in. On the second server, gdm shows me a menu with two choices: my username, and Automatic Login, selecting Automatic Login starts the same countdown

Re: Build bash 3.2 rpm package

2010-09-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Bruno Galindro da Costa writes: Hi,    How can I buid a rpm packge from bash 3.2 source ?    I need to use rpmbuild or bash have a make rpm directive (like drbd - URL:http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/s-build-rpm.htmlhttp://www.drbd.org/u sers-guide/s-build-rpm.html) ?    I´ve downloaded

Re: Build bash 3.2 rpm package

2010-09-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Bruno Galindro da Costa writes: Sam,      When you mean 'nuke all other files' what do you want to mean? Delete all other files?    If I download the source package (e.g. bash-3.2-24.el5.src.rpm for Red Hat 5), install it, grab only the spec file and put it in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/

Re: Ethernet Card Recommendations?

2010-09-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
KC8LDO writes: I'm looking at adding in a PCI Ethernet card to experiment with Ethernet bridging using the motherboard gigabit chipset with it. The motherboard chipset seems to be working OK and I would like a recommendation for an add in card that is known to work fine with Linux. A 10/100

How to stop NetworkManager from frobbing my /etc/resolv.conf

2010-09-26 Thread Sam Varshavchik
After copiously scouring links all over the place, I think that I've succesfully managed to set up a bridge between my real network interface and the virtual network interface used by virtmanager-hosted virtual machines. I now have F13 hosting a virtualized machine with full network

Re: How to stop NetworkManager from frobbing my /etc/resolv.conf

2010-09-26 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht writes: Tom Horsley horsley1...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:56:34 -0700 Craig White wrote: PEERDNS=no Which you have to put in each ifcfg-* script managed by NetworkManager. Or just put it in /etc/sysconfig/network and hit them all at once. There are a

Re: Cant format 1TB USB drive ?

2010-10-03 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Linuxguy123 writes: ext2fs_mkdir: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while creating root dir Two possibilities: 1) The drive's partition table is fibbing slightly about the drive's size. Check /var/log/messages when attaching the drive, to see what they say. Try

Re: Setting up a Linksys WRT54G router for SSH port forwarding

2010-10-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jim writes: Fedora 12 on both computers I have two computers setting behind this Linksys WRT54G router and I want to connect to both of them by SSH remote across the Internet.I have the internet IP for this router. #1 192.168.1.100 #2 192.168.1.101 In the The Applications and

Re: Proprietary or open source NVidia drivers?

2010-10-13 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Valent Turkovic writes: I would like to ask any NVidia Fedora users do you use open source or proprietary NVidia drivers? Why do you use driver that you use? Have you tried the other one? What are the benefits and disadvantages to both of them? I've been using nouveau, with very good

X can't run at full monitor res, but plymouth/rhgb can?

2010-10-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
This one is very interesting. I relocated my LCD monitor whose native resolution is 1920x1080. The video card is NV GTX 285, that outputs through a DVI port. The monitor has both a DVI and a D-SUB VGA plugs. With either the standard DVI cable, or a standard VGA cable hooked up through a

Re: X can't run at full monitor res, but plymouth/rhgb can?

2010-10-20 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Steven I Usdansky writes: Did the xorg.conf file you tried include the appropriate modeline? My monitor refuses to display in its full 1680x1050 glory without one. In my case: gtf 1680 1050 60 tells me what I need. I tried it. As I said, the results were the visual representation of a vomit

Re: X can't run at full monitor res, but plymouth/rhgb can?

2010-10-21 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Claude Jones writes: « HTML content follows » On Thursday, October 21, 2010, Tim wrote: I wonder what the practical limits are for either cabling?  35 feet does sound quite long for high bandwidth video. well, for the record, we've run 100' VGA cables to projectors, which is a fairly

Re: mail to another machine on the LAN

2010-10-26 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Hiisi writes: Hi, all! I would like to send messages to another machine on my home LAN. My current configuration is: Main computer (F12, serves as router), is connected to the Internet via eth0. It shares its connection for two LAN machines - one is Win XP laptop connected to the main computer

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