Re: Recommendations on quality text-to-speech software?

2016-12-05 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Greetings, Per the subject line, could someone please recommend text-to-speech software. espeak is functional, but it's quality isn't particularly strong. Much thanks, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: F25 Wayland & environment variables

2016-12-05 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 11:17:40 -0500 On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 07:12:57PM -0700, stan wrote: > keymapping. That's a show stopper for me, since I haven't used qwerty > in so long that it's hunt and peck for me now. It seems that more and > more, Fedora is following the open source dictum, 'Release

Re: Fedora 25 & LibreOffice Version: 5.2.3.3

2016-12-02 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I have some keyboard macros 3 and 2 that no longer work with LibreOffice after the Fedora 25 upgrade from Fedora 24. I thought it might be related to a Wayland versus X11 issue but there was no difference in function of the macros.  However the overall performance seemed faster with

Re: F25 Wayland & environment variables

2016-12-02 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Gee, once the gnome developers get everything to the state of perfect flawlessness they are seeking, it will be impossible to actually use a computer to do any work. Gnome should be on its way out. There is already an 8 year old bug about not being able to control the X server options(1). Now

Re: F25 Wayland & environment variables

2016-12-02 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
> > Everyone, > > I started having difficulty with some environment variables > that were > stored with the use of /etc/profile with X11. > > When using > Wayland these environment variables do not get stored at the > time of > login. Works fine when I change the gui to X11. > > Is there a

F25 Wayland & environment variables

2016-12-02 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I started having difficulty with some environment variables that were stored with the use of /etc/profile with X11. When using Wayland these environment variables do not get stored at the time of login. Works fine when I change the gui to X11. Is there a different place environment

Re: Fedora 25 & LibreOffice Version: 5.2.3.3

2016-12-01 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I have some keyboard macros 3 and 2 that no longer work with LibreOffice after the Fedora 25 upgrade from Fedora 24. I thought it might be related to a Wayland versus X11 issue but there was no difference in function of the macros.  However the overall performance seemed faster with

Fedora 25 & LibreOffice Version: 5.2.3.3

2016-12-01 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I have some keyboard macros 3 and 2 that no longer work with LibreOffice after the Fedora 25 upgrade from Fedora 24. I thought it might be related to a Wayland versus X11 issue but there was no difference in function of the macros. However the overall performance seemed faster with

Re: WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drive problem (Problem Solved)

2016-11-18 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
3, others are  only USB 2. Don't know if there would be a difference in the size of disk  supported by USB 2 versus USB 3.  On 30 Oct 2016 at 15:15, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Subject:WD  My Passport Ultra 3T usb drive problem From:   "Gregory P. Ennis

Re: WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drive problem

2016-10-30 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 10/30/2016 08:31 PM, fred roller wrote: > > [22133.737857] sd 12:0:0:0: [sdd] Spinning up disk... > [22134.737714] > . > .. > ...not responding... > > System is detecting... you are being assigned sdd in your

Re: WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drive problem

2016-10-30 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
> Date: Sunday, October 30, 2016 19:52:55 -0400 > From: fred roller > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Michael D. Setzer II < > mi...@kuentos.guam.net> wrote: > > > > > Would be interest to see how gparted sees the existing format, > > since ntfs should not be a

Re: WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drive problem

2016-10-30 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > Would be interest to see how gparted sees the existing format, since > ntfs > should not be a problem if you have ntfs-3g installed? > gparted isn't seeing anything near as I can tell, hence the request for

Re: WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drive problem

2016-10-30 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
that Fat32 don't support. Would be interest to see how gparted sees the existing format, since ntfs  should not be a problem if you have ntfs-3g installed? On 30 Oct 2016 at 15:15, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Subject:WD  My Passport Ultra 3T usb drive problem From:   "Gr

WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drive problem

2016-10-30 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I just purchased 3 WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drives that I had hoped to use for archive files for some digital images. Looks like WD has made it difficult to use for Linux.  The google searches that I did stepped me through mounting it on a Windows 10 system and then formatting it

Re: Fedora 24 and PNY SSD Problems

2016-07-31 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
> > Everyone, > > I am trying to reclaim some use out of a couple old Compaq Presaio > SR1720NX machines for the office by adding some memory and a PNY 240 > GB > CS1311 SSD drives.  The bios was made by Phoenix; I did not identify > a > version number of the bios.  I did not plan on keep the

Re: Fedora 24 and PNY SSD Problems

2016-07-23 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 08:45:13AM -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > Everyone, > > I am trying to reclaim some use out of a couple old Compaq Presaio > SR1720NX machines for the office by adding some memory and a PNY 240 > GB > CS1311 SSD drives.  The bios was m

Re: Fedora 24 and PNY SSD Problems

2016-07-17 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 08:45:13AM -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > Everyone, > > I am trying to reclaim some use out of a couple old Compaq Presaio > SR1720NX machines for the office by adding some memory and a PNY 240 > GB > CS1311 SSD drives.  The bios was m

Re: Fedora 24 and PNY SSD Problems

2016-07-17 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
> > Are there preparatory things that I need to do with the SSD drives > that > I am missing?  Any help would be appreciated. I know nothing for sure, but I'd try booting a live CD and running gnome-disks from it to see what it sees. If it can see the SSD, then perhaps there are already

Re: Fedora 24 and PNY SSD Problems

2016-07-17 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
> Are there preparatory things that I need to do with the SSD drives > that > I am missing?  Any help would be appreciated. I know nothing for sure, but I'd try booting a live CD and running gnome-disks from it to see what it sees. If it can see the SSD, then perhaps there are already partitions

Fedora 24 and PNY SSD Problems

2016-07-17 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I am trying to reclaim some use out of a couple old Compaq Presaio SR1720NX machines for the office by adding some memory and a PNY 240 GB CS1311 SSD drives.  The bios was made by Phoenix; I did not identify a version number of the bios.  I did not plan on keep the hard drive installed

Re: copying images out of pdfs

2016-06-10 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Again Fedora 22 Xfce. It seems Evince lacks being able to copy an image out of a pdf so I can  paste said image into a presentation.  Select text seems to be the only  option. It was sad when we lost Acrobat reader for Linux. What other tool can read in pdfs and provide selecting an image

Re: LibreOffice 5.0.3.2 - Slow response time

2015-12-13 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 12/13/15 19:53, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2015-12-12 at 22:34 -0200, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: > > I don't type ooffice to get it running... > Neither do I, but the point is that you could. It works with > OpenOffice > or Libreoffice and is just a symbolic link to whichever one you have.

Re: LibreOffice 5.0.3.2 - Slow response time

2015-12-13 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
The command is soffice. I just tried. Same versions as yours but without issues. Cinnamon desktop here, but I don't think it has anything to do. Try renaming your LibreOffice configs folder in your user. Log out and login. If it works fine, then is an issue with your settings. Cheers, Sylvia

Re: LibreOffice 5.0.3.2 - Slow response time

2015-12-12 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Works perfectly to me. Actually, I find LibreOffice faster now than a year ago. Run LibreOffice from console and send the output. I might be able to help you. I use Fedora 23 as well. Cheers, Sylvia --- Sylvia, Thanks for your help.  I activated oofice from the konsole

LibreOffice 5.0.3.2 - Slow response time

2015-12-12 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I have been having problems with LibreOffice since Fedora 22 being slow to the point that it is easier to use LibreOffice on one or our FC20 machines.   I currently have a new install of F23, with a good processor and 24 gigs of memory and was hoping the problem was fixed, but it is

Re: F22 and missing font Courier New 10

2015-10-31 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 10/30/2015 07:35 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > I created a new install of F22 64 and to my surprise the 'courier New > 10' is missing from Libreoffice. Does anyone have an rpm > replacement. > I have a bunch of documents that use this font and would like to > continue it.

F22 and missing font Courier New 10

2015-10-29 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I created a new install of F22 64 and to my surprise the 'courier New 10' is missing from Libreoffice. Does anyone have an rpm replacement. I have a bunch of documents that use this font and would like to continue it. There are some other fonts that are close, but none that is an

Re: drag konsole tabs

2015-09-23 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Thu, 2015-09-17 at 16:40 +0200, Markus Schönhaber wrote: > 17.09.2015, 12:20 CEST, Ed Greshko: > > > On 09/17/15 16:50, Maurizio Marini wrote: > > > Hello, sorry for lamer question: > > > w/ F22 I am not able anymore to drug konsole tab to change their > > > order, often I > > > need to have 2

Re: aeskulap and dicom files

2015-07-13 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
You are not running Enterprise Linux 7. This repo is not for Fedora. Using it will cause conflicts and unpredictable problems. --Pete Thanks Pete finally figured that out too. Greg -- users mailing list

Re: aeskulap and dicom files

2015-07-13 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 06:43:50 -0500 On Sun, 2015-07-12 at 19:35 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/12/15 19:23, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Thank you for your reply. I had to remove f22 dcmtk before this would work, but at least I have my DICOM viewer back. Thanks again! You're welcome

Re: aeskulap and dicom files

2015-07-12 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sun, 2015-07-12 at 16:20 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/12/15 01:38, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Can you give me a list of what repositories you are using. Here is what I got I used dnf -- nogpgcheck --releasever=21 install aeskulap And it install just fine as well. It installed

Re: aeskulap and dicom files

2015-07-12 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sun, 2015-07-12 at 19:35 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/12/15 19:23, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Thank you for your reply. I had to remove f22 dcmtk before this would work, but at least I have my DICOM viewer back. Thanks again! You're welcome. You may want to add an exclude

Re: aeskulap and dicom files

2015-07-11 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 10:16 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/10/15 09:20, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Looks like aeskulap was not included in F22. I had it on F21 and before. It was a very decent dicom viewer. Does anyone know why this was not included in F22. It was a good product

Re: aeskulap and dicom files

2015-07-11 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sat, 2015-07-11 at 17:48 +0100, John Austin wrote: On Sat, 2015-07-11 at 11:00 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 10:16 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/10/15 09:20, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Looks like aeskulap was not included in F22. I had it on F21

aeskulap and dicom files

2015-07-09 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, Looks like aeskulap was not included in F22. I had it on F21 and before. It was a very decent dicom viewer. Does anyone know why this was not included in F22. It was a good product. Greg Ennis -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

How do you store a Live Feed from a guitar

2015-06-30 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I finally have enough time to play with my computer and guitar at the same time. Does anyone have a method of storing a live feed from a guitar. I have a guitar with an acoustic pickup that I normally use with a regular amplifier. I now have a usb audio cable from Alesis LineLink

Re: Install of F22 Fails on Optiplex 780 with Windows 7.1

2015-06-14 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sat, 2015-06-13 at 11:58 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: On Sat, 2015-06-13 at 10:52 -0400, Max Pyziur wrote: On Sat, 13 Jun 2015, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: On Sat, 2015-06-13 at 07:22 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Everyone, I am trying to do a new install on a Dell Optiplex

Re: Install of F22 Fails on Optiplex 780 with Windows 7.1

2015-06-13 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sat, 2015-06-13 at 07:22 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Everyone, I am trying to do a new install on a Dell Optiplex 780 that has Windows 7.1 on it. My plan was to have a dual boot machine. I have created the Live 64 CD of Fedora 22 which boots without a problem, but when when I try

Re: Install of F22 Fails on Optiplex 780 with Windows 7.1

2015-06-13 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sat, 2015-06-13 at 10:52 -0400, Max Pyziur wrote: On Sat, 13 Jun 2015, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: On Sat, 2015-06-13 at 07:22 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Everyone, I am trying to do a new install on a Dell Optiplex 780 that has Windows 7.1 on it. My plan was to have a dual

Install of F22 Fails on Optiplex 780 with Windows 7.1

2015-06-13 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I am trying to do a new install on a Dell Optiplex 780 that has Windows 7.1 on it. My plan was to have a dual boot machine. I have created the Live 64 CD of Fedora 22 which boots without a problem, but when when I try to install it to the disc it does not recognize the hard drive.

Re: Evolution 3.10.4 and Fedora 20

2015-01-03 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Wed, 2014-11-12 at 10:28 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 15:50 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: 755 - VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Also, it should be noted

Re: Evolution 3.10.4 and Fedora 20

2014-11-12 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 15:50 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: 755 - VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Also, it should be noted that my observations were the same as John's in that I was first

Re: Evolution 3.10.4 and Fedora 20

2014-11-10 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 19:03 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Everyone, I have about 6 desktop's running F20 with evolution 3.10.4 that have had problems related to the desktop gui 'freezing'. I can go to a terminal interface by hitting cntrlaltF2, and when I toggle back to the gui

Re: Evolution 3.10.4 and Fedora 20

2014-11-10 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 10:10 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I had searched the evolution list, but did not see an entry similar to my problem. Since this problem not only 'freezes' the evolution display, but also freezes the entire gui, I thought starting here would be better. (Sorry about

Evolution 3.10.4 and Fedora 20

2014-11-09 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I have about 6 desktop's running F20 with evolution 3.10.4 that have had problems related to the desktop gui 'freezing'. I can go to a terminal interface by hitting cntrlaltF2, and when I toggle back to the gui it is still not usable. The screen is filled with the last object

Install Problem with Fedora 20 (No Local Standard Disks)

2014-06-26 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I purchased a used (refurbished) Dell Optiplex 755 that came with Windows 7 installed. I am trying to install Fedora 20, but when I get to the Installation Destination screen the fedora installer is not finding any Local Standard Discs, which means I have been unable to start any

Re: Install Problem with Fedora 20 (No Local Standard Disks)

2014-06-26 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 17:11:01 -0700 On 06/26/2014 04:47 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: The system boots to Windows without any problem. I was planning on overwriting the disc and getting rid of the windows product entirely. I have checked sum the installation disc, and have even created

FC20 and (:No such file or directory)

2014-02-09 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I have created a new F20 install on a Toshiba laptop this afternoon, and everything has gone well until I tried to set the laptop up for our system with some perl scripts. Some of the perl scripts worked fine, but one script would not activate and resulted in a command line error

Re: f20 - Anyone else having problems installing x64

2013-12-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Subject: f20 - Anyone else having problems installing x64 Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 21:54:01 -0600 I have a Gateway NV53A laptop that has Centos 6.5 installed and performing without a problem. I tried to install the x64 f20 on this machine, but have not been able to get the discs to install. I

f20 - Anyone else having problems installing x64

2013-12-19 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
I have a Gateway NV53A laptop that has Centos 6.5 installed and performing without a problem. I tried to install the x64 f20 on this machine, but have not been able to get the discs to install. I checksumed the disc and it passed I tested the disc with the boot process, and could not figure

Re: Fedora 19 and hdmi sound works on Toshiba but not HP

2013-09-24 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 23.09.2013 20:59, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: … I have still not been able to get the hdmi interface to become active. the results of lspci reveal : Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Wrestler HDMI Audio If any of you can help me find ua driver for this that will work I

Re: Fedora 19 and hdmi sound works on Toshiba but not HP

2013-09-23 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I have an HP 2000-2a22NR notebook with an hdmi interface with a new install of fc19. The hdmi video works perfectly, but I am unable to get the sound to the hdmi interface. When I activate 'sound settings' I am able to see sound output device that is labeled Speakers - Built-in

Fedora 19 and hdmi sound works on Toshiba but not HP

2013-09-22 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I have an HP 2000-2a22NR notebook with an hdmi interface with a new install of fc19. The hdmi video works perfectly, but I am unable to get the sound to the hdmi interface. When I activate 'sound settings' I am able to see sound output device that is labeled Speakers - Built-in

Re: vim fails on F18 x64

2013-03-18 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
n 03/18/13 10:28, Ed Greshko wrote: The one getting the error reproduces the issue. Curious. OK.. I figured it out One system is hitting this bugzilla https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=858135 vim-command-t should require ruby -- Ed, Thanks for your debug I

vim fails on F18 x64

2013-03-17 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I have just installed two machines with F18x64, and am having a problem with vim. When I try to execute the software I get root@CoBl ~]# vim Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV Vim: Finished. Segmentation fault (core dumped) Have any of you developed a work around for this yet? Thanks,

Re: vim fails on F18 x64

2013-03-17 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 03/18/13 06:35, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Everyone, I have just installed two machines with F18x64, and am having a problem with vim. When I try to execute the software I get root@CoBl ~]# vim Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV Vim: Finished. Segmentation fault (core dumped) Have any

Re: vim fails on F18 x64

2013-03-17 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 03/18/13 08:37, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: As you know he installation gui is quite different. I installed the gnome desktop, but could not figure out how to add kde and vim until after the installation. I did a yum install vim* in order to get everything. I was not sure on the basis of yum

Re: cups-1.5.4-18.fc17 /etc/cups/cups-files.conf

2013-03-06 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 19:40 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: The f17 update of cups to cups-1.5.4-18.fc17 on Feb 25th caused cups to fail to start. This update had some security updates with a creation of a new file /etc/cups/cups-files.conf that apparently can not be written to by cupsd

cups-1.5.4-18.fc17 /etc/cups/cups-files.conf

2013-03-05 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, The f17 update of cups to cups-1.5.4-18.fc17 on Feb 25th caused cups to fail to start. This update had some security updates with a creation of a new file /etc/cups/cups-files.conf that apparently can not be written to by cupsd. Log errors demonstrated that the lack ssl certificates

Re: bluetooth connection between two computers using pand with Fedora 17: connection failed

2013-01-06 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Hello, I am trying to create a simple bluetooth connection using pand with Fedora 17. I followed these two links: http://bluez.sourceforge.net/contrib/HOWTO-PAN http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1393215.html And ran, on the server: pand --listen --role=NAP And on the client-side

Unsupported Hardware with 3.6.2-1.fc16.x86_64 on FC 16

2012-10-24 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, With the update of the new kernel 3.6.2-1.fc16.x86_64 on FC16 I am getting a new message on the lower right hand corner of my desktop that is about an 1 inch by 1 inch in size telling me that there is Unsupported Hardware present. The title in this box appears to be AMD with an blocked

Re: hdmi and sound to a tv on F16

2012-09-03 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 08:53:50PM -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I thought I would take one more stab at asking for help getting my hdmi interface to work with sound. Does anyone have any suggestions?? What does `alsamixer -c0 -Vall' and pavucontrol show you. AFAIU, you should be able

Re: Understanding my network

2012-09-03 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
/30/2012 08:47 AM, Dale Dellutri wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Arthur Dent misc.li...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: ... So here's the thing - and I don't remember having this problem with F15 (or previous): I can access my mail using a client on another machine in my network if I

Re: hdmi and sound to a tv on F16

2012-09-02 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
I am still unable to get the sound activated through the hdmi interface. Try running the sound control, they change the name every release, but currently you can get to it via the command: gnome-control-center sound You can go to the Hardware tab and select a Profile from the bottom of

hdmi and sound to a tv on F16

2012-08-25 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I have an HP Pavilion g7-1117cl Notebook PC with F16-x64 as the os. I have finally had the time to debug the TV interface with an hdmi connection. I had F15 on this same unit, and was able to have both sound and video via the hdmi interface. The F16 install was not an upgrade, but

Re: hdmi and sound to a tv on F16

2012-08-25 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 11:26:26 -0500 Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I am still unable to get the sound activated through the hdmi interface. Try running the sound control, they change the name every release, but currently you can get to it via the command: gnome-control-center sound You can go

Re: ACER N281G

2012-04-29 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Hey Greg, On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Gregory P. Ennis po...@pomec.net wrote: I picked up an ACER N281G that comes packed with linpus 3.0.0. It has a a network connection, usb ports, and memory card reader, but no DVD. linpus is supposed to be a Fedora based os, I would like to put

ACER N281G

2012-04-25 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I picked up an ACER N281G that comes packed with linpus 3.0.0. It has a a network connection, usb ports, and memory card reader, but no DVD. linpus is supposed to be a Fedora based os, I would like to put F16 on this to see if it will fly. I have never used a memory card reader to

Re: ACER N281G

2012-04-25 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Davi Garcia writes: Hey Greg, On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Gregory P. Ennis po...@pomec.net wrote: I picked up an ACER N281G that comes packed with linpus 3.0.0. It has a a network connection, usb ports, and memory card reader, but no DVD. linpus is supposed to be a Fedora

Re: Fedora 16 / gnome3 / ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]

2012-04-04 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, Just when I was getting accustomed to gnome3, and liking it, my system switched to fallback mode automatically. I thought the problem was something I had done, and when I tried to fix it I only made things much worse and eventually even broke yum. I decided to start over with a new

Re: Fedora 16 / gnome3 / ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]

2012-04-04 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 14:31 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Everyone, Just when I was getting accustomed to gnome3, and liking it, my system switched to fallback mode automatically. I thought the problem was something I had done, and when I tried to fix it I only made things much worse

Re: Is there a Catalyst Driver for Kernel3.2.10?

2012-03-28 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
I cannot search the driver in YUM. The Catalyst driver lives in the rpmfusion repo so if you don't have that installed then you first need to add it. Information how to do that can be found at: http://rpmfusion.org

Re: Is there a Catalyst Driver for Kernel3.2.10?

2012-03-28 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 16:36, Gregory P. Ennis po...@pomec.net wrote: Junayeed, Although I have appreciation for the people working on catalyst, it surely does not work on my system as well. I did a yum search on imo but did not get much. Can you give me a little more information

Re: Is there a Catalyst Driver for Kernel3.2.10?

2012-03-28 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 21-03-12 04:36, Jean Jacques wrote: I cannot search the driver in YUM. The Catalyst driver lives in the rpmfusion repo so if you don't have that installed then you first need to add it. Information how to do that can be found at: http://rpmfusion.org Except that it's broken

Re: Is there a Catalyst Driver for Kernel3.2.10?

2012-03-28 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 03/28/2012 10:46 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Kevin, Thanks for your post. It would not work with the FC16 LiveCD, but it did work with FC17-Alpha LiveCD. 17 is going to be out in a couple of months so maybe there is some hope for using gnome3 on this HP Pavillon g7 laptop. Did u try KDE

Re: Is there a Catalyst Driver for Kernel3.2.10?

2012-03-27 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 21-03-12 04:36, Jean Jacques wrote: I cannot search the driver in YUM. The Catalyst driver lives in the rpmfusion repo so if you don't have that installed then you first need to add it. Information how to do that can be found at: http://rpmfusion.org Except that it's broken on 3.2.9

Re: Fedora 16 / gnome3 / ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]

2012-03-26 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 03/25/2012 08:49 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I have not tried that, surely easy to do, I'll need to download the LiveCD iso. What would you expect to find? If you can't get into Gnome3 from the LiveCD, it's probably not a kernel update causing it as the image isn't kept updated. If you

Fedora 16 / gnome3 / ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]

2012-03-25 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, Just when I was getting accustomed to gnome3, and liking it, my system switched to fallback mode automatically. I thought the problem was something I had done, and when I tried to fix it I only made things much worse and eventually even broke yum. I decided to start over with a new

Re: Fedora 16 / gnome3 / ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]

2012-03-25 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 03/25/2012 08:35 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I am still unable to boot to gnome3 without going to failsafe mode; your help would be appreciated. What happens when you boot from a LiveCD? Joe, I have not tried that, surely easy to do, I'll need to download the LiveCD iso. What would you

Re: Fedora 16 / gnome3 / ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]

2012-03-25 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 03/25/2012 08:49 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I have not tried that, surely easy to do, I'll need to download the LiveCD iso. What would you expect to find? If you can't get into Gnome3 from the LiveCD, it's probably not a kernel update causing it as the image isn't kept updated. If you

Re: Fedora 16 / gnome3 / ATI Technologies Inc Device 9648 (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]

2012-03-25 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 03/25/2012 08:49 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I have not tried that, surely easy to do, I'll need to download the LiveCD iso. What would you expect to find? If you can't get into Gnome3 from the LiveCD, it's probably not a kernel update causing it as the image isn't kept updated. If you

Re: F16 failure to completely boot - hangs at 'Started Display Manager'

2012-03-13 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
n 03/11/2012 11:19 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Starting Display Manager. Started Display Manger I had that problem on this box after an upgrade to F16 went sour. Try booting into runlevel 3, or whatever it's called now, log into a CLI as root and try this: yum reinstall gdm and reboot

F16 failure to completely boot - hangs at 'Started Display Manager'

2012-03-11 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, Help I have a laptop with F16 that now refuses to boot into the logon screen this morning. The boot sequence pauses at Starting Display Manager. Started Display Manger There is one error message displayed before the above line items: Failed to start LSB: Builds and

Re: F16 failure to completely boot - hangs at 'Started Display Manager'

2012-03-11 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, Help I have a laptop with F16 that now refuses to boot into the logon screen this morning. The boot sequence pauses at Starting Display Manager. Started Display Manger There is one error message displayed before the above line items: Failed to start LSB: Builds and

Re: Adding Menu items in gnome3 of F16

2012-01-06 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Gregory P. Ennis po...@pomec.net wrote: Everyone, I would like to add some simple menu items in gnome3 of F16, and have not figured out how to do this yet. I tried alacarte, but it is broken giving me a message that gmenu has not been installed

Re: Adding Menu items in gnome3 of F16

2012-01-06 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 08:03:19AM -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Gregory P. Ennis po...@pomec.net wrote: Everyone, I would like to add some simple menu items in gnome3 of F16, and have not figured out how to do this yet. I tried alacarte, but it is broken

Adding Menu items in gnome3 of F16

2012-01-05 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I would like to add some simple menu items in gnome3 of F16, and have not figured out how to do this yet. I tried alacarte, but it is broken giving me a message that gmenu has not been installed. There is no gmenu to install from yum. At this point all I would like to do is to set

Re: RS880 Audio Device (Radeon HD 4200) HDMI sound interface difficulties

2012-01-01 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Gregory P. Ennis po...@pomec.net wrote: T.C. Thanks for the advice. I added the radeon.audio=1 to the kernel command line, but the hdmi still does not function. I tried to add the command to ./grub/menu.lst but looks like that file is not present in F16. I

Re: RS880 Audio Device (Radeon HD 4200) HDMI sound interface difficulties

2012-01-01 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Gregory P. Ennis po...@pomec.net wrote: T.C. Well looks like we have an answer the pulse audio daemon is not even running.chmod o+rw /dev/snd/*, Yep, that'll do it. ;-) What desktop environment do you use? What is the output of: rpm -qa '*pulseaudio

Re: RS880 Audio Device (Radeon HD 4200) HDMI sound interface difficulties

2012-01-01 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Gregory P. Ennis po...@pomec.net wrote: T.C, I am using gnome, but have kde and xfce installed - have not tried either of the two at this point. Hmm, does /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop exist? Not sure why GNOME isn't autostarting it. Here

Re: RS880 Audio Device (Radeon HD 4200) HDMI sound interface difficulties

2012-01-01 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Gregory P. Ennis po...@pomec.net wrote: T.C. /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop does exist and Exec=start-pulseaudio-x11 is one of the line items of the file. That's very weird. I don't understand why it doesn't autostart. You should probably file a bug

Re: RS880 Audio Device (Radeon HD 4200) HDMI sound interface difficulties

2012-01-01 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
T.C. For some reason pulseaudio is starting now. I don't think my original observation was wrong, but ... Before I set up the .config/autstart in the users account I did a reboot and when I logged in pulseaudio was active. running 'pacmd suspend false' resulted in : Welcome to PulseAudio! Use

RS880 Audio Device (Radeon HD 4200) HDMI sound interface difficulties

2011-12-31 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I have a new install of F16 on a Gateway laptop with an ATI Movility Radeon HD4250 that I am not able to get any sound output through an hdmi interface. I believe that I have the sound interface selected appropriately. The speakers on the laptop work fine, but there is no sound to the

Re: RS880 Audio Device (Radeon HD 4200) HDMI sound interface difficulties

2011-12-31 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Does anyone know if there are special drivers that are needed for this. I don't know if this is one of the ATI cards that falls in the unsupported category or not, but there are definitely ATI HDMI cards out there with no HDMI audio support in current released kernels.

Re: RS880 Audio Device (Radeon HD 4200) HDMI sound interface difficulties

2011-12-31 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Gregory P. Ennis po...@pomec.net wrote: Does anyone know if there are special drivers that are needed for this. I don't know if this is one of the ATI cards that falls in the unsupported category or not, but there are definitely ATI HDMI cards out

Re: F16 and gnome 3.2

2011-12-07 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 06/12/11 23:08, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: On 03/12/11 22:26, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I have done a F16 new install on an HP Pavilion g series. When I did a first boot the system advised me it was going to switch to gnome fallback mode. Is this something I am going to need to live

f16 and hdmi interfaces

2011-12-07 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I am trying to use an hdmi interface between an f16 system and a flatscreen tv. The video display is great, but there is no sound via the hdmi. Are there any drivers that will allow F16 to channel the audio through the hdmi or am I going to need to use the regular sound interfaces.

Re: F16 and gnome 3.2

2011-12-06 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 05/12/11 14:30, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 09:41 +, Rich Boyce wrote: On 03/12/11 22:26, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I have done a F16 new install on an HP Pavilion g series. When I did a first boot the system advised me it was going to switch to gnome fallback mode

Re: F16 and gnome 3.2

2011-12-06 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 06/12/11 01:00, Aaron Konstam wrote: gnome-shell is installed but I only get fail-safe mode. Any other ideas? Which version of gnome do you have installed? 3.2? I know 3.0 didn't work with this intel chip. yum list gnome-shell should tell you this. Rich

Re: F16 and gnome 3.2

2011-12-06 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 03/12/11 22:26, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: I have done a F16 new install on an HP Pavilion g series. When I did a first boot the system advised me it was going to switch to gnome fallback mode. Is this something I am going to need to live with or is their a way to retry gnome 3.2. Sure

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