Re: Preupgrade doesn't work

2010-09-11 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 4:09 AM, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, it is a state of flux. I always managed to move to next Fedora with either preupgrade or 'yum upgrade' methods, but other people are not always so lucky and hit an air pocket. In my case hitting air pockets could mean

Preupgrade doesn't work

2010-09-10 Thread Marcel Rieux
I tried to upgrade to Fedora 13 with preupgrade, just as I had done previously with Fedora 11 = 12. First, I get this kind of result: preupgrade Loaded plugins: blacklist, whiteout No plugin match for: rpm-warm-cache No plugin match for: remove-with-leaves No plugin match for:

Re: Preupgrade doesn't work

2010-09-10 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:40 AM, JB jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Marcel Rieux m.z.rieux at gmail.com writes: ... Hi, if you just care about upgrading to next Fedora, try this method: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq Thanks for the suggestion but, I always thought preupgrade

Re: Unable to disable wireless with latest NetworkManager-gnome

2010-08-30 Thread Marcel Rieux
I have a somewhat similar problem with a wired ADSL connection. I used to disable the connection by right clicking the icon and unclicking Enable connection. Now Enable connection is checked and grayed out. It's impossible to disable the connection by unchecking. BUT, it you left click and choose

Re: Unpatched major kernel

2010-08-29 Thread Marcel Rieux
More on this issue: http://lwn.net/Articles/400746/ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Re: Who's moderating this forum?

2010-07-19 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/19/2010 10:24 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote: you could ask Rahul Sundaram to use a correct return address. His problem has been going on forever. Is that your excuse to send abusive and rude mails in private?  I don't

Re: Who's moderating this forum?

2010-07-19 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Paul Frields sticks...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: It has little to do with the venue, and more to do with the tone you've brought to it, Marcel. Yeah, of course, the tone! Whenever I try to bring

Re: Who's moderating this forum?

2010-07-19 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Sam Sharpe lists.red...@samsharpe.net wrote: On 19 July 2010 21:09, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: This said, as this very message proves, it seems your only goal is to add noise to this thread. There are 60 posts currently in this thread. Of those

Re: Who's moderating this forum?

2010-07-19 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/20/2010 04:06 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote: Did you notice that Sundaram's never replied to my message explaining that pretending that OOo not having an autoreplace option because of copyright matters is absolutely

Re: Who's moderating this forum?

2010-07-18 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Andrew Haley a...@redhat.com wrote: I think the best way for me to improve this list is to provide help where it's needed and try to avoid tedious arguments. I don't think that anyone made me the hall monitor. In the end, the only real way to improve the

Re: Who's moderating this forum?

2010-07-18 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 2:20 AM, Darr d...@core.com wrote: On Saturday, 17 July, 2010 @23:44 zulu, Marcel Rieux scribed: Where can I read the board's position on the name copyright? You're mixing nomenclatures... you can't copyright a name - names can be trademarked, though. Right

Re: Who's moderating this forum?

2010-07-18 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:14 PM, David dgbo...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/17/2010 9:58 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Darr d...@core.com mailto:d...@core.com wrote: On Friday, 16 July, 2010 @02:48 zulu, Marcel Rieux scribed: and it will most probably

Re: Who's moderating this forum?

2010-07-18 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com wrote: The irony, Marcel, is that if your request was actually taken seriously, and this list became moderated (which is a headache anyway, since there is no post-posted moderation possible in a mailing list) is

Re: Bind downloads

2010-07-18 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: Result: https://mail.google.com/mail/channel/bind?VER=(...)it=(...)SID=(...)RID=(...)AID=(..https://mail.google.com/mail/channel/bind?VER=%28...%29it=%28...%29SID=%28...%29RID=%28...%29AID=%28.. .) Page displayed

Re: Wo, I'm asking RPMfusion how to uninstall Kmod nvidia

2010-07-18 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:08 AM, suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.comfatkasuvayu%2bli...@gmail.com wrote: I couldn't help but notice, you didn't follow the instructions correctly as provided by Nicholas. Please stop spreading this nonsense all over the place. I followed instructions as

Re: Who's moderating this forum?

2010-07-18 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 9:34 PM, David dgbo...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/18/2010 9:29 PM, Darr wrote: Since you won't stop using HTML quotes, I won't bother quoting you at all anymore. If ebay can't stop the site paypalsucks.com, I doubt there's much redhat can (or should) do about the fedorafaq

Re: Bind downloads

2010-07-18 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 11:53 PM, JD jd1...@gmail.com wrote:  On 07/18/2010 08:36 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com mailto:m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote:     Result:     https://mail.google.com/mail/channel/bind?VER=(...)it=(...)SID

Re: Who's moderating this forum?

2010-07-18 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:01 AM, David dgbo...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/18/2010 11:52 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 9:34 PM, David dgbo...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/18/2010 9:29 PM, Darr wrote: For some reason Gmail defaults to rtf. That can be easily changed in the 'compose

Re: Who's moderating this forum?

2010-07-18 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Darr d...@core.com wrote: Since you won't stop using HTML quotes, I won't bother quoting you at all anymore. David told me teh solution wasn't in Settings, but in the reply interface. How long did it take to fix the problem? 2 days. Now, maybe you could ask

Re: Who's moderating this forum?

2010-07-17 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Germán A. Racca Please, it would be nice if you stop sending html mails: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines#No_HTML_Mail.2C_Please This page has a link on how to send text messages unfortunately it points to

Re: Who's moderating this forum?

2010-07-17 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Darr d...@core.com wrote: On Friday, 16 July, 2010 @02:48 zulu, Marcel Rieux scribed: and it will most probably prove my point that while Nouveau developers pretend they work really hard to get new users, installing Kmod is a one way ticket. Unless

Re: Wo, I'm asking RPMfusion how to uninstall Kmod nvidia

2010-07-17 Thread Marcel Rieux
In the thread 'Who's moderating this forum? , On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Darr d...@core.com gave a few suggestions to remove the Nvidia driver and to make Nouveau work. Since somebody from Nouveau told me on this list that installing Nvidia drivers is not a one way ticket that will prevent

Re: Who's moderating this forum?

2010-07-16 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 13:13 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: The prerequisite is that Red Hat employees have some common sense themselves... Of course, we all know that Fedora being an entity completely separate from Red

Re: Autocorrection in OOo 3.1.1 and shortcut for navigating in Firefox when zoomed in

2010-07-16 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: You have a problem. Several people offered you solutions but you are reluctant to try it out. What is the solution to a non-existing tab? One person said 3.2.1 would settle the problem. I explained why I wouldn't

Re: Who's moderating this forum?

2010-07-16 Thread Marcel Rieux
2010/7/15 Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:48:08 -0400 Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: ...snip... http://fedorasolved.org/Members/dcr226/nouveau-kmods-mesa-dri-exper RPMFusion updated its site today. Here's what they suggest: Disable or uninstall the nvidia

Re: Bind downloads

2010-07-16 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Kevin J. Cummings cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: On 07/16/2010 12:12 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Kevin J. Cummings cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net mailto:cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: On 07/15/2010 07:11 PM, Kevin

Re: Autocorrection in OOo 3.1.1 and shortcut for navigating in Firefox when zoomed in

2010-07-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Rick Stevens ri...@nerd.com wrote: On 07/14/2010 03:54 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Smith, Herbherb.sm...@boeing.com wrote: *From:* users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Wo, I'm asking RPMfusion how to uninstall Kmod nvidia

2010-07-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
As everybody suggested I wrote to RPMFusion on how to make a clean uninstall of Kmod Nvidia. E.g.: suggested by: *Alan Evans, who wrote: * It is their responsibility to explain how to uninstall that software. Simple. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-June/376088.html* Todd

Re: Autocorrection in OOo 3.1.1 and shortcut for navigating in Firefox when zoomed in

2010-07-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: No. as the tile and the line above say, I mean in OOo 3.3.1 Still no answer to this question. Isn't it amazing

Re: Autocorrection in OOo 3.1.1 and shortcut for navigating in Firefox when zoomed in

2010-07-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 15:17 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: It's no mystery why no one knows how to make autocorrections, the functionality doesn't exist. It's documented in the help files how to something similar,

Who's moderating this forum?

2010-07-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
Since I'm in rant mode, I might as well continue. There's a lot to be said about how Fedora doesn't work! On *Thu Jun 24 01:36:32 UTC 2010, **Joel Rees* wrote about there being no instructions to revert from Nvidia to Nouveau drivers: No, re-installing to clear up a mess that may take more time

Bind downloads

2010-07-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
Once in a while, a pop-up shines saying Download complete when I downloaded nothing. So, I checked the Downloads directory where, since 04:12 till 04:57 today I have 7 bind 0 byte files. I don't know what time this is since I received that last download notice about an hour ago and it is 17:43

Re: Autocorrection in OOo 3.1.1 and shortcut for navigating in Firefox when zoomed in

2010-07-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 16:47 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: You have OOo 3.2.1 available on CentOS 5 when only 3.1.1 is available on Fedora 12? Rather surprising! OO 3.2.1 is readily available for download directly from

Re: Autocorrection in OOo 3.1.1 and shortcut for navigating in Firefox when zoomed in

2010-07-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: How does Red Hat manages to ask thousand of dollars from companies when Linux's main word processing software doesn't offer

Re: Bind downloads

2010-07-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:44:02 -0400 Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: Once in a while, a pop-up shines saying Download complete when I downloaded nothing. From what application? Can you tell by it's window? Web

Re: Autocorrection in OOo 3.1.1 and shortcut for navigating in Firefox when zoomed in

2010-07-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: Ok, so that's why it's OK if it doesn't work! Windows at $35 (OEM) for 5-7 years seems a better alternative though. Red Hat salesmen must be really competent. I certainly couldn't sell one Red Hat copy for sure. If

Re: Who's moderating this forum?

2010-07-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/16/2010 03:00 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote: I don't understand how come nobody responsible for this group tries to make discussions move forward to better results for Red Hat, whether it be about uninstalling

Re: Who's moderating this forum?

2010-07-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
at the time. I thought maybe somebody would drop a few lines to protest this obvious nonsense. 3 weeks later, nothing. What usually happens is some people add more of the same. On 15 July 2010 22:46, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/16/2010 03:00 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote: I

Re: Who's moderating this forum?

2010-07-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On *Thu Jun 24 01:36:32 UTC 2010, **Joel Rees* wrote about there being no instructions to revert from Nvidia to Nouveau drivers: I answered him with a link that answered his question, but he didn't reply if that solved

Re: Who's moderating this forum?

2010-07-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Check closely, I didn't split the thread. Somebody, unaware of the result, I suppose, removed OT: from the title line. It's unfortunate but those things happen. No. You did split the thread by starting yet

Re: Autocorrection in OOo 3.1.1 and shortcut for navigating in Firefox when zoomed in

2010-07-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 18:48 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: YOU say it's a solution. I don't know you, I don't deal with you. If Fedora believes it's a solution, I'll apply it. You don't know anyone on this mailing list

Re: Autocorrection in OOo 3.1.1 and shortcut for navigating in Firefox when zoomed in

2010-07-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/16/2010 05:27 AM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: Is there any word (that you've heard by rumor) that indicates what the possible immediate intellectual property problem may be? The bug report doesn't specify

Re: Who's moderating this forum?

2010-07-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: I was referring to the June post not to answer it but to give a flagrant example of some omnipresent nonsense. Of course, I might be wrong

Re: Bind downloads

2010-07-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Kevin J. Cummings cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: On 07/15/2010 07:11 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: This looks like you were at some site that had a 0 length file called 'bind' and when you clicked on it it downloaded... it uses the numbers each time you

OT: Autocorrection in OOo 3.1.1 and shortcut for navigating in Firefox when zoomed in

2010-07-14 Thread Marcel Rieux
I often type voyels too fast so I'd like errors such as teh to be automatically corrected to the. I searched the web but all the solutions I found involved using menu entries that are not in OOo 3.1.1. Does anybody know how to do this? I often use the zoom in Firefox, Is there any way to make

Crashes

2010-07-14 Thread Marcel Rieux
Firefox is often killed by signal 11: Package:firefox-3.5.10-1.fc12 Latest Crash:Mon 12 Jul 2010 11:45:16 PM Command:/usr/lib64/firefox-3.5/firefox --sm-config-prefix /firefox-P8PZv6/ --sm-client-id 10a7781fec216fecbb1278870778770015530047 --screen 0 Reason:

Re: OT: Autocorrection in OOo 3.1.1 and shortcut for navigating in Firefox when zoomed in

2010-07-14 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Sam Sharpe lists.red...@samsharpe.netwrote: On 14 July 2010 21:25, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: I often use the zoom in Firefox, Is there any way to make Firefox remember a default zoom? Is there a keyboard shortcut to navigate to the right

Re: Autocorrection in OOo 3.1.1 and shortcut for navigating in Firefox when zoomed in

2010-07-14 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Smith, Herb herb.sm...@boeing.com wrote: *From:* users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] *On Behalf Of *Marcel Rieux *Sent:* Wednesday, July 14, 2010 3:26 PM *To:* Community support for Fedora users *Subject:* OT

Re: Crashes

2010-07-14 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Kevin J. Cummings cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: On 07/14/2010 04:33 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: Firefox is often killed by signal 11: Package:firefox-3.5.10-1.fc12 Latest Crash:Mon 12 Jul 2010 11:45:16 PM Command:/usr/lib64/firefox

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-23 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Dennis Gilmore den...@ausil.us wrote: On Tuesday, June 22, 2010 05:34:05 pm Marcel Rieux wrote: As a simple user, I'm not in a position to fight RPMFusion. So, if the Nouveau developers don't want to provide instructions on how to install Nouveau when

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-23 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Dennis Gilmore den...@ausil.us wrote: there are multiple ways to install nvidias drivers. Its really not simple to cover them all. some ways like using the installer directly from nvidia replace a bunch of Xorg bits It's most likely that people who have

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-23 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Dennis Gilmore den...@ausil.us wrote: On Tuesday, June 22, 2010 10:39:16 pm Marcel Rieux wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Dennis Gilmore den...@ausil.us wrote: reverse whatever it was you did to enable the nvidia driver, then you get Nouveau

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-23 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: One way is to back up your data and reinstall Fedora. That's simple to explain and reliable. It's an annoying amount of work, but it might have taken less of your time as things turned out. Reinstalling to install a

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-22 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: That makes no sense. If you ask them for information about why this particular kmod package was delayed, I doubt that they would give you an answer anything like you suggest. Oops, sorry! I read too fast and thought,

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-22 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: I'll check. The question has been asked here on the 17th: http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-users/2010-June/000682.html There's one reply to the message, it's somebody explaining Fedora 12 has the same

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-22 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 15:55:32 -0400, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: And RPMfusion provides instructions on how to get Nouveau out of the way to do a clean install. Why, as I was explaining to Dennis

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-22 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Dennis Gilmore den...@ausil.us wrote: reverse whatever it was you did to enable the nvidia driver, then you get Nouveau since its the default. How do you, for instance, reverse: su - mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-21 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 16:25:38 -0400, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: Another thing that would be nice is an howto on disinstalling nvidia drivers made available on Fedora's or rpmfusion's site. Last time

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-21 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 15:17:14 -0400, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: (Snip) So, finally, 4 days after the kernel update, a corresponding nvidia kernel module was provided. Not a word anywhere as to why

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-19 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 22:02:49 -0400, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: As I said, I don't believe rpmfusion, a repository not supported by Red Hat/Fedora, could block a kernel update. They can using

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-18 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: If you think that getting an updated kernel installed without the corresponding nVidia kmod being installed is a problem, you could suggest that they use conflicts to block those updates. As I said, I don't believe

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-17 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 19:52:49 -0400, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: Isn't RPMfusion preparing its upcoming module according to the kernel version that is in Testing? I would think that RPMfusion has

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-17 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.comwrote: the way it works is that rpmfusion cannot build their kmod's until Fedora ships a new kernel. So there is a lag of time between the kernel update and the packages from rpmfusion No. Usually, the kernel and the module

Re: Klipper search box doesn't disappear

2010-06-16 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Steven P. Ulrick lists-fed...@afolkey2.net wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: On 06/16/2010 04:54 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote: So. if somebody could fill the bug report, I would appreciate. It's

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-16 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Kevin Martin kevi...@ameritech.net wrote: This has nothing to do with who broke what. This has everything to do with attempting to make Fedora, and other Linux variants, mainstream enough for the common person to use. Have you seen Taxi Driver? There's a

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-16 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 19:03:41 -0400, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: How can rpmfusion provide the module for a kernel it's not expecting because the one in testing -- posted yesterday

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Darr d...@core.com wrote: On Monday, 14 June, 2010 @ 23:13 zulu, Marcel Rieux scribed: Here's the last update suggestion I received today: [snip] kernel x86_64 2.6.32.14-127.fc12 Most of the other replies have focused

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.comwrote: the way it works is that rpmfusion cannot build their kmod's until Fedora ships a new kernel. So there is a lag of time between the kernel update and the packages from rpmfusion because they need the kernel source to

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Kevin Martin kevi...@ameritech.net wrote: snip Shouldn't there be a way for yum/packagekit to understand the interdependencies when kmod packages are installed such that a new kernel update is *not* offered if the corresponding kmod package that uses it is

Re: Klipper search box doesn't disappear

2010-06-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu wrote: Marcel Rieux wrote: I use Klipper in Gnome. When I do a search in Klipper, the search box doesn't disappear and hides the first entry until the computer is rebooted. I found no instructions anywhere on how to close

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:05 PM, David Boles dgbo...@gmail.com wrote: Fedora provides you, free of charge, a perfectly good, working, operating system. And they maintain that system. As provided. You modified it by adding a package, or packages, from a non Fedora site(s). Fedora provided

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:05 PM, David Boles dgbo...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/15/2010 4:35 PM, Kevin Martin wrote: On 06/15/2010 02:30 PM, mike cloaked wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: I used to use kmod-nvidia(-PAE) and what I used to do was:

Re: Klipper search box doesn't disappear

2010-06-15 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: On 06/16/2010 04:54 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote: So. if somebody could fill the bug report, I would appreciate. It's not an activity I'll ever get really good at, I afraid. P.s.: Maybe you can wait for Ed Gresko

Another funny update?

2010-06-14 Thread Marcel Rieux
Here's the last update suggestion I received today: == PackageArch Version RepositorySize

Re: Klipper search box doesn't disappear

2010-06-14 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Ed Greshko ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: On 06/15/2010 07:00 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote: More fun with Klipper! Just as it used to do before, most of the time, it's impossible to paste in gedit unless the first entry is reselected. In OOo, either using

Re: Klipper search box doesn't disappear

2010-06-14 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps or perhaps you are seeing problems others have not. In either case, file a bug report with the details would be useful. Thanks to Ed's answer, I could figure this is a possibility. So, I made a few tests. 1)

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-14 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Dale J. Chatham d...@chatham.org wrote: On 06/14/2010 06:29 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 19:13:59 -0400, Marcel Rieuxm.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: For this issue you are really complaining to the wrong people. kmod-nvidia is from

Re: Another funny update?

2010-06-14 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/15/2010 04:43 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote: = So, the oldest kmod-nvidia is removed with the oldest kernel and it will still be possible to boot with the present

Klipper search box doesn't disappear

2010-06-11 Thread Marcel Rieux
I use Klipper in Gnome. When I do a search in Klipper, the search box doesn't disappear and hides the first entry until the computer is rebooted. I found no instructions anywhere on how to close it. Is there a default way to close boxes? Klipepr's help says: You can search through the clipboard

PYCURL ERROR 6 and slow tranfer rates

2010-05-26 Thread Marcel Rieux
New updates today and the PYCURL ERROR 6 comes back again. It looks like this: Total download size: 87 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: http://mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/updates/12/x86_64/kdebase-4.4.3-2.fc12.1.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 - Trying other mirror.

Re: Problem with Akamai's INET6?

2010-05-07 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 07 May 2010 06:06:39 you wrote: If I were you, I'd complain to the cbc.ca webmaster and tell him to fix it. It's going to be an uphill battle: Linux - At this time Linux is not supported.

Re: Preupgrade??

2010-05-05 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Peter Larsen plar...@famlarsen.homelinux.com wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 22:58 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: That's not what I said. I said I've been using Fedora and RedHat long before things like LVM existed. I'm more comfortable

Problem with Akamai's INET6?

2010-05-05 Thread Marcel Rieux
I try to view this video: http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/lies/video.html and don't succeed. I was able to get an mms URL at Akamai, but here's what happens, even using mplayer directly: mplayer mms://

Re: Preupgrade??

2010-05-03 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Hugh Caley hu...@aldon.com wrote: LVM can be very handy for desktops. If you run out of space on / (or any other mount that uses LVM) you can attach another disk, add it to LVM, and expand the filesystem with resize2fs. Easy and quick. Before I bought my

Re: Preupgrade??

2010-05-03 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Kevin J. Cummings cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: On 05/02/2010 11:23 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: I have selected my disk partitioning for a long time and when new wizardry comes along, I always wonder how much help it's going to be. In most cases

Re: Preupgrade??

2010-05-01 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Kevin J. Cummings cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net wrote: On 04/30/2010 05:31 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com mailto:methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/01/2010 02:28 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote

Re: Preupgrade??

2010-04-30 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.comwrote: Now Fedora by default installs a 500 MB /boot, which should be sufficient for the foreseeable future. (Admittedly in free software, things change rapidly so the horizon of foreseeable isn't as long as you might find

Re: Preupgrade??

2010-04-30 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/01/2010 02:28 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote: On === Isn't it now possible to revert to not using a /boot partition and having the full / space for installation? No. Because while the latest GRUB

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

2010-04-09 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/09/2010 05:17 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote: [ You mailed me offlist and then quoted me on a public list. You need to stop doing that] You are right in observing that the cost of living is not the same in America

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

2010-04-09 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Sam Sharpe lists.red...@samsharpe.netwrote: On 9 April 2010 00:47, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: We know that Canonical is strong in cloud computing. Etc. But... With all due respect, you pulled that line out of your ass and have no data to support

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

2010-04-09 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: Being privately held, Canonical is pretty secretive about the size of its business. Shuttleworth said when Silber was appointed last December that the company was not yet profitable but heading in the right direction

Test, ignore

2010-04-08 Thread Marcel Rieux
Sorry, folks but it seems there is no test group and I want to see how gmail interacts with Fedora's list when there is a Cc. I hope... p wont't mind if I use his address. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Test, ignore

2010-04-08 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Marcel Rieux m.z.ri...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, folks but it seems there is no test group and I want to see how gmail interacts with Fedora's list when there is a Cc. I hope... p won't mind if I use his address. Sorry, p. I'll need a second one. THis should

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

2010-04-08 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/08/2010 02:29 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote: On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 04/06/2010 02:39 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote: Meanwhile, back on the farm, Mark Shuttleworth pays his

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

2010-04-07 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/06/2010 02:39 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote: Meanwhile, back on the farm, Mark Shuttleworth pays his developers and doesn't get a cent back... for now. Far from true. You need to check your facts. Oops! I missed

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

2010-04-05 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:36 PM, psmith psm...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On 01/04/10 23:44, Craig White wrote: I do have faith that Fedora governance is independent of Red Hat. Craig you are joking right? fedora is just a testing ground for redhat (think selinux, pulseaudio, abrt

Klipper now works in GNOME!

2010-04-05 Thread Marcel Rieux
On the brighter side, an upgrade has arrived since I noticed that Klipper only worked properly in GNOME after Parcellite was installed and functional. The upgarde caused problems selecting text. I removed Parcellite and now Klipper works perfectly in GNOME. Glipper is still unavailable. -- users

Re: Klipper now works in GNOME!

2010-04-05 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Christoph Wickert christoph.wick...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Montag, den 05.04.2010, 17:17 -0400 schrieb Marcel Rieux: On the brighter side, an upgrade has arrived since I noticed that Klipper only worked properly in GNOME after Parcellite was installed

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

2010-04-03 Thread Marcel Rieux
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Matt Domsch matt_dom...@dell.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 11:23:48PM -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote: As a matter of fact, as Fedora is mainly financed by Red Hat as a test bench for RHEL. Fedora is more than a test bench for RHEL. I can hardly

Re: AppArmor about to be merged into the kernel?

2010-04-03 Thread Marcel Rieux
Gee, I almost missed this one! On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Thomas Cameron thomas.came...@camerontech.com wrote: I must confess that I'm not very strong on opinions; I'm better on facts. Then you should probably try finding some. The drivel below is complete fantasy. 2006.

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