Re: Dual screen

2018-02-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/20/18 09:25, Ed Greshko wrote: > would not concentrate would NOW concentrate -- A motto of mine is: When in doubt, try it out signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/20/18 04:14, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Now I am running 1368x768 > I do not think that it is what I wanted. As I've said before, that is the resolution your monitor is designed to provide the best performance. I would not concentrate on picking the best looking fonts.  I have a Samsung TV

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/20/18 09:25, Ed Greshko wrote: > If I can only find the mini-HDMI cable that would connect > to my laptop.  I have never used a TV as a monitor so I don't know how well > suited > they are for this purpose. I found my HDMI cable.  The TV is a 48 inch model.  It just so happens that its

Re: Is Fedora Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

2018-02-19 Thread Paul Allen Newell
On 02/19/2018 06:04 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/19/18 21:51, Ranjan Maitra wrote: What do these mean, and what is the needed mitigation, if any? Basically, it means that everything that can currently be done to lessen the chances of a security breach is being done. Otherwise you may see

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/19/18 17:05, Patrick Dupre wrote: >> I suspect that the high-res computer screen copies somehow its >> own resolution to the lower res TV. That's why I asked in another >> message for the xrandr output for all three monitors, including the one >> for the built-in computer monitor. I didn't

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-19 Thread Patrick Dupre
> "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:43:35 +0100 > > > "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > > > > > > > > Subject: Re: Dual screen > > > > > > > > > > Allegedly, on or about 17 February 2018, stan sent: > > > > > > Using monitors with

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-19 Thread Patrick Dupre
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:43:12 +0800 > Ed Greshko wrote: > > > On 02/19/18 08:21, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > >> Is your poorly performing monitor is connected to HDMI? > > > Yes > > >>> xrandr > > >>> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3520 x 1200, maximum 8192 x > >

Re: Is Fedora Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

2018-02-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/19/18 21:51, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > What do these mean, and what is the needed mitigation, if any? Basically, it means that everything that can currently be done to lessen the chances of a security breach is being done. Otherwise you may see something like... Mitigation: Full generic

Is Fedora Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

2018-02-19 Thread Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
What are the patches that I can download and install to be protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities? ===BEGIN SIGNATURE=== Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming's Academic Qualifications as at 30 Oct 2017 [1] https://tdtemcerts.wordpress.com/ [2]

Re: Is Fedora Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

2018-02-19 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Mine are stock Fedora kernels, updated to the latest. On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 21:44:09 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 02/19/18 20:14, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > > What are the patches that I can download and install to be protected > > against the Meltdown and

Re: Is Fedora Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

2018-02-19 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 22:04:41 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 02/19/18 21:51, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > What do these mean, and what is the needed mitigation, if any? > > > Basically, it means that everything that can currently be done to lessen the > chances > of a

Re: Is Fedora Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

2018-02-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/19/18 20:14, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > What are the patches that I can download and install to be protected > against the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities? (Resend to List, oops) Yes.  As long as you don't have kernel modules which were built with a non-patched

Re: Hardware Errors

2018-02-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On 17/02/2018 17:49, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2018-02-17 at 17:33 +, Anne Wilson wrote: >> On 17/02/2018, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> Try 'journalctl -k -b' to see kernel >>> messages since the most recent boot >> >> (Fabricated quote, as I never received your message in TBird.

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-19 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 10:23:27 +0100 "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3520 x 1200, maximum 8192 x 8192 > HDMI-1 connected 1920x1080+1600+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) > 609mm x 347mm >1366x768 59.79 + >1920x1080 60.00*

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

2018-02-19 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 4:51 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 14/2/18 8:18 pm, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 4:28 PM, Stephen Morris >> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks Tom. My statement was from having seen other threads on this >>> list saying

Re: Nvidia Module Tainting Kernel

2018-02-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/20/18 04:41, Stephen Morris wrote: >    I'm using the nvidia drivers from negativo17. I have the nvidia source > module > registered with dkms and it seems to be being compiled when I get a new > kernel, if > that is the case what do I need to do to resolve the following messages shown >

Re: Hardware errors

2018-02-19 Thread Stephen Morris
On 19/2/18 3:29 pm, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 19 February 2018, Stephen Morris sent: Just following on from this, is my setup strange when I have never found boot.log to be empty and on my system it currently has mountains of entries? Oops. The machine I'm working on now does have a

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-19 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 21:14:22 +0100 "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > > > > Two things you need to know. Read careful: > > > > -- 0: > > You probably have a file like > > > > ~/.config/monitors.xml > > > > in your home dir - or wherever. Find it. Read it: It might be that this > >

Nvidia Module Tainting Kernel

2018-02-19 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     I'm using the nvidia drivers from negativo17. I have the nvidia source module registered with dkms and it seems to be being compiled when I get a new kernel, if that is the case what do I need to do to resolve the following messages shown by "dmesg"? [   14.934074] nvidia: loading

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-19 Thread Patrick Dupre
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 21:14:22 +0100 > "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > > > > > > > Two things you need to know. Read careful: > > > > > > -- 0: > > > You probably have a file like > > > > > > ~/.config/monitors.xml > > > > > > in your home dir - or wherever. Find it. Read it: It

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-19 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 22:25:19 +0100 "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > Hello, > > The Hardware of the PC does not let me access to any monitor configuration. > It seems that every thing is automatic (It is a recent Asus Motherboard). > > The new monitor says that it is running with a

Re: how to (re-?)construct grub menu?

2018-02-19 Thread Stephen Morris
On 20/2/18 3:51 am, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 4:51 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 14/2/18 8:18 pm, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 4:28 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: Thanks Tom. My statement was from having seen other threads on

Re: Dual screen

2018-02-19 Thread Patrick Dupre
I a a bit confused. > > On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 10:23:27 +0100 > "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > > > > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3520 x 1200, maximum 8192 x 8192 > > HDMI-1 connected 1920x1080+1600+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y > > axis) 609mm x 347mm > >1366x768