Re: Can't install nvidia drivers on Laptop

2011-11-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/23/2011 08:35 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote: > I appreciate you comments but I have sent 3 or 4 bug references along > with pictures and error messages received and have not heard anything > concerning this matter. If can get one filed, it would be appreciated. > I may not know how to do it so a

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-23 Thread NOSpaze
On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 18:44 +, JB wrote: > Marko Vojinovic gmail.com> writes: > > On Wednesday 23 November 2011 09:57:35 JB wrote: > > > http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fedora-16.html > > Oh, come on JB, do you really think quoting that guy makes any sense? > That's not fair to him. > He ha

Re: Is android linux done right?

2011-11-23 Thread Skunk Worx
On 11/18/2011 04:04 PM, Pete Travis wrote: > On Nov 17, 2011 11:44 PM, "Skunk Worx" wrote: >> >> Android may be the fastest growing linux distribution in history. >> >> Now that Google has open sourced Ice Cream Sandwich, will some linux >> distribution leverage the Android "Java Desktop" just as

Re: OT: gather hardware information over network

2011-11-23 Thread Hiisi
On 24 November 2011 01:15, Frank Pikelner wrote: <--SNIP--> > > You may want to try Versiera as setup would only be a few minutes. > Create an account, download and install the agents. It is simple and > would collect all the info you require, though may be overkill as a > lot of info is collected

Re: Two instances of Inbox, one as subfolder

2011-11-23 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 19:19 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I suddenly have two instances of my Inbox folder, one at the top level > and the other as a subfolder of Drafts... This was intended to be posted on the Evolution list. Sorry for the extra traffic. jon -- users mailing list users@li

Re: system console redirection - all but boot messages redirected ttyS0?

2011-11-23 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Morgan Read said: > Thanks for getting back - I followed your instructions. It seemed I > needed to swap console=ttyS0 and console=tty0 BUT opposite from what you > suggested. That is, console=ttyS0 was last and by swapping it with > console=tty0 and making console=ttyS0 listed

Re: fedora 16 64 bits gnome shutdown button

2011-11-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 18:47 -0800, Bryce Hardy wrote: > > It's called Advanced Settings in the Applications Overview Thanks, I don't know how I missed that. > , or > actually it works for me to type "tweak" in overview mode I learn something new every day. I didn't know you could type into th

Re: system console redirection - all but boot messages redirected ttyS0?

2011-11-23 Thread Morgan Read
On 21/11/11 03:45, Roger Heflin wrote: > On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Morgan Read wrote: >> Hello Folks >> >> I'm running f14 (still) >> >> I've successfully configured my machine (hp ml150 g3) to redirect bios, >> grub menu and login prompt - but, between the grub menu and the login >> prompt

Re: Can't install nvidia drivers on Laptop

2011-11-23 Thread Lawrence Graves
On 11/23/2011 06:34 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/23/2011 05:18 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote: That's what I've been saying all the time. I did know it was not the nvidia drivers. If I am not mistaken, this is a firmware problem with my wifi card. That being said, where is the fix for this problem. Wh

Firefox Issues Resolved

2011-11-23 Thread Fedora User
I was having problems is FF 8.0-03 causing 100% usage spikes. Removing all of the extensions and add-ons had no effect. Nor did deleting the .mozilla directory. HOWEVER, FF 8.01 from source works perfectly and eliminates the problem completely. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Need help to fix ruby, rails,rvm

2011-11-23 Thread Roger
I installed ruby, rails, gem, rvm in ubuntu 11.10 and tried to update ruby from 1.8.7 to the recommended 1.9.2 and it fails. No matter what I do rails reports /usr/bin/ruby1.8: bad interpreter: ls -l /usr/bin/ruby* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2011-11-24 14:02 /usr/bin/ruby -> /etc/alternatives/r

Need help removing ruby

2011-11-23 Thread Roger
I installed ruby, rails, gem, rvm in ubuntu 11.10 and tried to update ruby from 1.8.7 to the recommended 1.9.2 and it fails. No matter what I do rails reports /usr/bin/ruby1.8: bad interpreter: ls -l /usr/bin/ruby* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2011-11-24 14:02 /usr/bin/ruby -> /etc/alternatives/r

Two instances of Inbox, one as subfolder

2011-11-23 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I suddenly have two instances of my Inbox folder, one at the top level and the other as a subfolder of Drafts. The one at the top level appears to have everything that the one in Drafts does plus more mail that has come in since 9:00am today. A screenshot is attached. Any ideas about what happen

Re: can Thunderbird be configured to pick Fedora system mail?

2011-11-23 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 11/23/2011 09:06 PM, Claude Jones wrote: > Subject says it all. I have messages coming to my user logon but I can't > figure out a way to get Thunderbird to retrieve them. I could do it with > KMail, but that's broken for me at the moment. > The easiest way is probably to install dovecot and

Re: can Thunderbird be configured to pick Fedora system mail?

2011-11-23 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Claude Jones wrote: > Subject says it all. I have messages coming to my user logon but I can't > figure out a way to get Thunderbird to retrieve them. I could do it with > KMail, but that's broken for me at the moment. Go to Edit > Account Settings, then in the lo

can Thunderbird be configured to pick Fedora system mail?

2011-11-23 Thread Claude Jones
Subject says it all. I have messages coming to my user logon but I can't figure out a way to get Thunderbird to retrieve them. I could do it with KMail, but that's broken for me at the moment. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: fedora 16 64 bits gnome shutdown button

2011-11-23 Thread Bryce Hardy
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > I can't find any way to get to the gnome-tweak-tool either other than > from the command line, is that the way it's supposed to be or am I just > missing finding it among the Applications? It's called Advanced Settings in the Applications Over

Re: fedora 16 64 bits gnome shutdown button

2011-11-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 18:16 -0500, Elliott Chapin wrote: > > Greg Woods ucar.edu> writes: > > > >> I haven't had it abort login, but the extension did stop working when I > >> upgraded from F15 to F16. > > yum install gnome-tweak-tool Yep. Sure enough, if I activate the alternate-status-menu e

Re: Bad memory module?

2011-11-23 Thread Dean S. Messing
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:13:31, Soham Chakraborty wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 3:10 AM, Dean S. Messing wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, Soham Chakraborty wrote. > > > Since you have a correctable error, it shouldn't be any problem with the > > > memory module. > > > > Thanks! But now I'm curiou

Configuring samba printer on Fedora 14

2011-11-23 Thread Paolo Galtieri
When I had F12 installed on my system I was able to configure a printer attached to my dad's windows system without issues. I'm now running F14 and I'm having problems. When I bring up system-config-printer and add a printer via samba I provide just the workgroup name and select browse. After a

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-23 Thread David
On 11/23/2011 2:44 PM, JB wrote: > David gmail.com> writes: > >> ... >> For the moment... peace? I am sorry if I took you for someone else. > > Please forward my impersonator's email then. > Peace as well :-) > JB Will be done. once again. My sincere apologizes if I took you for someone else

wifi problems F16 + eee 1000

2011-11-23 Thread Mark Miller
I recently installed F16 on my Asus eee 1000, using the live ISO on a flash drive. As of today, I have kept current with updates using yum. My problem is that I can only connect to the first WiFi access point I configured. If I disconnect from that access point, I can not reconnect, nor can I co

Re: Can't install nvidia drivers on Laptop

2011-11-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/23/2011 05:18 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote: > That's what I've been saying all the time. I did know it was not the > nvidia drivers. If I am not mistaken, this is a firmware problem with my > wifi card. That being said, where is the fix for this problem. What > direction do I go to find the fix

Re: Can't install nvidia drivers on Laptop

2011-11-23 Thread Lawrence Graves
On 11/23/2011 03:47 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 23.11.2011 23:38, schrieb Lawrence Graves: On 11/23/2011 03:24 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 1:42 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote: On 11/23/2011 09:20 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote: Then what do you suggest I do to get my nvidia dri

Re: Bad memory module?

2011-11-23 Thread Soham Chakraborty
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 3:10 AM, Dean S. Messing wrote: > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, Soham Chakraborty wrote. > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Dean S. Messing wrote: > > > Do you know what this message actually means? > > > > > > > It basically means memory error checking on a memory module along wi

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-23 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/24/2011 07:34 AM, Craig White wrote: > On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 15:50 +, JB wrote: > >> Are M$ Windows or Mac OS X test beds too ? > > sure - they ship with thousands of known bugs > Too easy... :-) -- Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-23 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 15:50 +, JB wrote: > Are M$ Windows or Mac OS X test beds too ? sure - they ship with thousands of known bugs Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@lists

Re: Suddenly shutdown delayed -

2011-11-23 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 23/11/11 15:59, Bob Goodwin wrote: >For the last several days shutdown of this F-15 computer has >developed a delay. > >When I click on shutdown it immediately switches to a black >screen with one line at the top: > > sendmail " some numbers I couldn't

Re: fedora 16 64 bits gnome shutdown button

2011-11-23 Thread Roger
On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 22:56 +, Andre Robatino wrote: > Greg Woods ucar.edu> writes: > > > I haven't had it abort login, but the extension did stop working when I > > upgraded from F15 to F16. I only get the "Suspend" or "Log off" options. > > I tried the ALT key, which does allow shutdown or

Re: fedora 16 64 bits gnome shutdown button

2011-11-23 Thread Elliott Chapin
On 11/23/2011 05:56 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: > Greg Woods ucar.edu> writes: > >> I haven't had it abort login, but the extension did stop working when I >> upgraded from F15 to F16. I only get the "Suspend" or "Log off" options. >> I tried the ALT key, which does allow shutdown or restart (thank

depmod while install 3rd-party-modules

2011-11-23 Thread Reindl Harald
hi since rpmfusion ropped "open-vm-tools" and their kmods for F15 and F14 is nearly EOL i try to get them built by my own and finally will provide a link to my rsc.rpm on this and the rpmfusion-mailinglist it seems that all works fine now without the split of open-vm-tools and kmod-open-vmtools b

fedora 16 64 bits gnome shutdown button

2011-11-23 Thread Andre Robatino
Greg Woods ucar.edu> writes: > I haven't had it abort login, but the extension did stop working when I > upgraded from F15 to F16. I only get the "Suspend" or "Log off" options. > I tried the ALT key, which does allow shutdown or restart (thanks for > the tip on that). But the extension under F15

Re: Can't install nvidia drivers on Laptop

2011-11-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 23.11.2011 23:38, schrieb Lawrence Graves: > > > On 11/23/2011 03:24 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 1:42 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote: On 11/23/2011 09:20 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote: >> Then what do you suggest I do to get my nvidia drivers installed. >>> You ref

Re: fedora 16 64 bits gnome shutdown button

2011-11-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 22:14 +, Andre Robatino wrote: > Bryce Hardy gmail.com> writes: > > > In addition to holding down the ALT key, you can install the extension > > that provides the Shutdown option: > > > > yum install gnome-shell-extension-alternative-status-menu > > Unfortunately, tha

Re: Can't install nvidia drivers on Laptop

2011-11-23 Thread Lawrence Graves
On 11/23/2011 03:24 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 1:42 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote: On 11/23/2011 09:20 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote: Then what do you suggest I do to get my nvidia drivers installed. You refer to kmod's and akmod version drivers. Have you tried building your ow

Recomend a colour laser printer

2011-11-23 Thread Steve Searle
After battling for a couple of years with my cheap Dell 1320c printer I have decided to throw in the towel as I can't get a 64bit Linux driver for it. Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced network colour laser printer that works well with Fedora 16 x64? Let me know what you have if it works wel

Re: Can't install nvidia drivers on Laptop

2011-11-23 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 1:42 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote: > >> On 11/23/2011 09:20 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote: > > >>>  Then what do you suggest I do to get my nvidia drivers installed. > > You refer to kmod's and akmod version drivers. Have you tried building > your own from the bin file? > > Add

Re: fedora 16 64 bits gnome shutdown button

2011-11-23 Thread Bryce Hardy
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: > Unfortunately, that extension is not currently working in F16 (at least for > me), even though it was recently updated. When enabled, I get "Oh no" on login > and am forced to disable it. I stand corrected. I used the extension briefly on F

Re: Speeding up boot (was: Fedora - time to blink)

2011-11-23 Thread Ian Malone
On 23 November 2011 21:13, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: >> My gut-feeling after these install has been no improvement of start-up >> speed. I.e. I have not said to myself "wow, how fast it started". So the >> next question will obviously b

Re: Adventures with Gnome 3.2 fallback

2011-11-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/23/2011 02:07 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > My luck was that Gnome3.2 could not fully work on my system so I was > going to be put in fallback mode (I think that is what it is called) By > the way can anyone point me to what lack of resources causes that to > happen? Check to see if Compiz is r

Re: Speeding up boot (was: Fedora - time to blink)

2011-11-23 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 11/23/2011 01:13 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: >> The author of systemd explained a lot of this in detail here: >> http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/blame-game.html > > Yes, but he still assumes a fair amount of knowledge from the reader. > As a

fedora 16 64 bits gnome shutdown button

2011-11-23 Thread Andre Robatino
Bryce Hardy gmail.com> writes: > In addition to holding down the ALT key, you can install the extension > that provides the Shutdown option: > > yum install gnome-shell-extension-alternative-status-menu Unfortunately, that extension is not currently working in F16 (at least for me), even thoug

Re: Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-23 Thread Jim
On 11/23/2011 02:47 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Jim wrote: >> On 11/23/2011 09:34 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Jimwrote: >>> > I can't tell from the messages output you posted if your machine is > x86_64 or not but I had a

Adventures with Gnome 3.2 fallback

2011-11-23 Thread Aaron Konstam
My luck was that Gnome3.2 could not fully work on my system so I was going to be put in fallback mode (I think that is what it is called) By the way can anyone point me to what lack of resources causes that to happen? At first I was discouraged until I realized what I had was what many people aske

Re: fedora 16 64 bits gnome shutdown button

2011-11-23 Thread Bryce Hardy
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Leonardo Silveira wrote: > how do i add the shutdown button on gnome menu? In addition to holding down the ALT key, you can install the extension that provides the Shutdown option: yum install gnome-shell-extension-alternative-status-menu -- Bryce Hardy -- us

F16 kde plasma crashes - occasional

2011-11-23 Thread mike cloaked
I have been running f16 x86_64 with kde 4.7.3 for a week or two on two different machines. Occasionally I have found that the screen saver kicks in but then fails to time out and so the screensaver runs continuously without powersaving the monitor after a period as normally happens. Occasionally

Re: fedora 16 64 bits gnome shutdown button

2011-11-23 Thread Nicolae Ghimbovschi
Hi, Open the menu and press the Alt key. The power off should appear. On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 23:54, Leonardo Silveira wrote: > hello, > > how do i add the shutdown button on gnome menu? > > T.I.A. > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscripti

fedora 16 64 bits gnome shutdown button

2011-11-23 Thread Leonardo Silveira
hello, how do i add the shutdown button on gnome menu? T.I.A. -- 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: Speeding up boot (was: Fedora - time to blink)

2011-11-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/23/2011 01:13 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > The author of systemd explained a lot of this in detail here: > http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/blame-game.html Yes, but he still assumes a fair amount of knowledge from the reader. As an example, he shows how to mask a service in /etc/systemd/

Re: Bad memory module?

2011-11-23 Thread Dean S. Messing
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, Soham Chakraborty wrote. > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Dean S. Messing wrote: > > Do you know what this message actually means? > > > > It basically means memory error checking on a memory module along with a > parity checking bit. It is calculated when one byte of memory

How do I revert back to kernel-headers-2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64 ?

2011-11-23 Thread Dean S. Messing
Yesterday I updated by F15 system. Three of the updated packages were kernel-headers-2.6.41.1-1.fc15.x86_64 kernel-devel-2.6.41.1-1.fc15.x86_64 kernel-2.6.41.1-1.fc15.x86_64 This turned out to make rebuilding the VMware modules a MAJOR pain, and today I noticed that VMware is loading

Re: rhythembox problems

2011-11-23 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 16:15 +0100, Patrick Lists wrote: > On 11/22/2011 04:04 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > I assume people are not having the problems with rhythembox. In neither > > F15 nor F16 does rhythembox play Audio CDs. On both systems it can't > > find the CD. That is not completely true. I

Re: Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Jim wrote: > On 11/23/2011 12:23 PM, Jim wrote: >> On 11/23/2011 09:34 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Jim  wrote: >>> > I can't tell from the messages output you posted if your machine is > x86_64 or not but I had a very very

Re: OT: gather hardware information over network

2011-11-23 Thread Frank Pikelner
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Hiisi wrote: > Hi list! > This maybe is a little off-topic on this list hence the 'OT' in the > subject line. Sorry for that. > I need to gather hardware information from computers on a local > network and store it on a server. The server runs F16, clients run > d

Speeding up boot (was: Fedora - time to blink)

2011-11-23 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > My gut-feeling after these install has been no improvement of start-up > speed. I.e. I have not said to myself "wow, how fast it started". So the > next question will obviously be, how can I use the data gathered with > "systemd-analyze

Re: Bad memory module?

2011-11-23 Thread Soham Chakraborty
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Dean S. Messing wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011, Tom Horsley wrote: > > > Does this mean I have a memory module about to go out? > > > > When in doubt add a memtest boot menu entry and let it > > check out your memory for a few hours: > > > > http://www.memtest.org/ >

Suddenly shutdown delayed -

2011-11-23 Thread Bob Goodwin
For the last several days shutdown of this F-15 computer has developed a delay. When I click on shutdown it immediately switches to a black screen with one line at the top: sendmail " some numbers I couldn't copy" unqualified host name [box9] u

Re: Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-23 Thread Jim
On 11/23/2011 12:23 PM, Jim wrote: > On 11/23/2011 09:34 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Jim wrote: >> I can't tell from the messages output you posted if your machine is x86_64 or not but I had a very very similar issue with a Samsung scx4500w when I in

Re: Bad memory module?

2011-11-23 Thread Dean S. Messing
On Wed, 23 Nov 2011, Tom Horsley wrote: > > Does this mean I have a memory module about to go out? > > When in doubt add a memtest boot menu entry and let it > check out your memory for a few hours: > > http://www.memtest.org/ Thanks for the tip. I'll run it all night tonight. (This is my work m

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-23 Thread JB
Tom Horsley gmail.com> writes: > ... > Windows 8, Ubuntu Unity, Gnome 3, they are all > going down the same path (though for my money > ubuntu unity is the most dreadful of them). Unfortunately many of the industry "prophets" follow the same path, as if they lacked critical thinking. All of us

Re: F14 EOL?

2011-11-23 Thread inode0
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > I have yumex check for updates every morning.  For the last several > days, there've been none for my desktop on F14.  Yesterday, there were a > number of them for my laptop, now on F16.  Generally speaking, there's > an announcement at the Fedora

Re: F14 EOL?

2011-11-23 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > I have yumex check for updates every morning.  For the last several > days, there've been none for my desktop on F14.  Yesterday, there were a > number of them for my laptop, now on F16.  Generally speaking, there's > an announcement at the Fedora

Re: F14 EOL?

2011-11-23 Thread Fulko Hew
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > I have yumex check for updates every morning. For the last several > days, there've been none for my desktop on F14. Yesterday, there were a > number of them for my laptop, now on F16. Generally speaking, there's > an announcement at the Fedor

Re: Update of rpmfusion-* on F16-x86_64 is confusing or lost.

2011-11-23 Thread Lucélio Gomes de Freitas
Em 23-11-2011 17:56, T.C. Hollingsworth escreveu: > 2011/11/23 Lucélio Gomes de Freitas : >> TC, >> >> The simple fact that the repository is listed by "yum repolist" means >> that it is enabled? >> Once they are there, why the question "Do you trust the source of the >> packages?". Is this a bug?

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-23 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 11/23/2011 07:38 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > Try running "systemd-analyze blame". It'll show you which services > are taking the longest to start so you can figure out what fat you > might be able to trim. Thanks for pointing out the systemd-analyze command. I ran systemd-analyze on three

F14 EOL?

2011-11-23 Thread Joe Zeff
I have yumex check for updates every morning. For the last several days, there've been none for my desktop on F14. Yesterday, there were a number of them for my laptop, now on F16. Generally speaking, there's an announcement at the FedoraForum several days before a version reaches EOL, and t

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:01:44 -0800 Joe Zeff wrote: > It's clearly gone down a path I don't want > to follow. But it is a disease afflicting everyone apparently. While it is true that the tradition desktop interface is a dreadful design for phones and tablets, no one seems to realize that a good

Re: Bad memory module?

2011-11-23 Thread Tom Horsley
> Does this mean I have a memory module about to go out? When in doubt add a memtest boot menu entry and let it check out your memory for a few hours: http://www.memtest.org/ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedorapr

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/23/2011 11:36 AM, JB wrote: > And today I look at a review of F16 with GNOME 3, by a guy who is repected by > me. And behold, he basically threw his arms into the air. Descriptions by people like him of what Gnome 3 was going to be are why I don't use Gnome any more. It's clearly gone down

Re: Update of rpmfusion-* on F16-x86_64 is confusing or lost.

2011-11-23 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
2011/11/23 Lucélio Gomes de Freitas : > TC, > > The simple fact that the repository is listed by "yum repolist" means > that it is enabled? > Once they are there, why the question "Do you trust the source of the > packages?".  Is this a bug? Well, you should get that when installing the rpmfusion-

Re: Cannot play MP3 files on Totem

2011-11-23 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 19:44 +, Paul Smith wrote: > It is working now -- thanks for your help! > > Paul You're welcome Jonathan signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription optio

Bad memory module?

2011-11-23 Thread Dean S. Messing
Night before last I started getting the following message in /var/log/messages about every hour or so. Nov 23 11:39:50 kernel: [54140.456113] EDAC MC0: CE row 1, channel 1, label "": (Branch=0 DRAM-Bank=2 RDWR=Read RAS=15602 CAS=460, CE Err=0x1 (Correctable Patrol Data ECC)) Does this mea

Re: Update of rpmfusion-* on F16-x86_64 is confusing or lost.

2011-11-23 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
2011/11/23 Lucélio Gomes de Freitas : > They were already there, before the "yum localinstall --nogpgcheck": > == > [Lucelio@MAQ01 ~]$ sudo yum repolist > Plugins carregados: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit > id do repo                  

Re: Update of rpmfusion-* on F16-x86_64 is confusing or lost.

2011-11-23 Thread Lucélio Gomes de Freitas
TC, The simple fact that the repository is listed by "yum repolist" means that it is enabled? Once they are there, why the question "Do you trust the source of the packages?". Is this a bug? Thx, Em 23-11-2011 15:54, T.C. Hollingsworth escreveu: > 2011/11/23 Lucélio Gomes de Freitas : >> Hi fri

Re: Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-23 Thread mike cloaked
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Jim wrote: > On 11/23/2011 09:34 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Jim  wrote: >> I can't tell from the messages output you posted if your machine is x86_64 or not but I had a very very similar issue with a Samsung scx4500w

panic at boot

2011-11-23 Thread Emilio Lopez
Hello! I just started fedora 16, and I get a panic message before kde starts. I did a hard reboot (laptop power button pushed for a while) and there are no problems. I think a boot.log should exists, and this information should be useful to develop team. Where is that file, and where should I send

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-23 Thread JB
David gmail.com> writes: > ... > For the moment... peace? I am sorry if I took you for someone else. Please forward my impersonator's email then. Peace as well :-) JB -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproj

Re: Cannot play MP3 files on Totem

2011-11-23 Thread Paul Smith
It is working now -- thanks for your help! Paul -- 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: Can't install nvidia drivers on Laptop

2011-11-23 Thread R. G. Newbury
> On 11/23/2011 09:20 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote: >>> Then what do you suggest I do to get my nvidia drivers installed. You refer to kmod's and akmod version drivers. Have you tried building your own from the bin file? Add rdblacklist=nouveau to the kernel line in your grub conf file Cha

Re: Update of rpmfusion-* on F16-x86_64 is confusing or lost.

2011-11-23 Thread Lucélio Gomes de Freitas
Thank you for your atention, Em 23-11-2011 15:54, T.C. Hollingsworth escreveu: > 2011/11/23 Lucélio Gomes de Freitas : >> Hi friends, >> >> Ref: Linux Fedora 3.1.1-2.fc16.x86_64 (installed and working aparentely >> 100%) >> >> Verifying new atualizations on KDE environment(F16-x86_64), >> I got

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-23 Thread David
On 11/23/2011 2:19 PM, JB wrote: > David gmail.com> writes: > >> ... >>> Who ? Me ? >> >> Yeah. You. I see you on various lists thorough out The Internet. And you >> do the same Trolling thing there as here. >> > > You must have confused me with some body else, or some impersonator :-) > I do n

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-23 Thread JB
David gmail.com> writes: > ... > My "political axes to grind" are with those like the user that started > this thread who calls himself JB. It was a waste of bandwidth. This is > supposed to be a *help* list for those that have a problem or a question > and not a *chat* list for those with too

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-23 Thread JB
David gmail.com> writes: > ... > > Who ? Me ? > > Yeah. You. I see you on various lists thorough out The Internet. And you > do the same Trolling thing there as here. > You must have confused me with some body else, or some impersonator :-) I do not participate in any other Internet discussio

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-23 Thread David
On 11/23/2011 12:34 PM, Fennix wrote: > Dear all, > > Just another thought...I,myself,do not have any political axes to grind. > Here I do see some (to my thinking) excessive sensitivities to > "newbies" asking (what seems to be reasonable questions...) even if not > in the comonally accepted app

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-23 Thread David
On 11/23/2011 10:23 AM, JB wrote: > David gmail.com> writes: > >> >> On 11/23/2011 4:57 AM, JB wrote: >> >> He returns! The Troll is back. >> > > Who ? Me ? Yeah. You. I see you on various lists thorough out The Internet. And you do the same Trolling thing there as here. > You are a troll. >

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/23/2011 10:38 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > Try running "systemd-analyze blame". It'll show you which services > are taking the longest to start so you can figure out what fat you > might be able to trim. Right now, I'm getting ready to help run a convention over the holiday weekend. I'

Re: statically-built qemu-[arch] on Fedora

2011-11-23 Thread Mr Dash Four
> have you tried ldd on it ? ldd will tell what you need to copy into chroot. That would be a futile exercise because a) these files need to be in the ld.conf.d path (/usr/lib[64]) and b) there are multiple dependencies and if I try to unhinge them all I will have to spend *months* doing it! The

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-23 Thread JB
Marko Vojinovic gmail.com> writes: > > On Wednesday 23 November 2011 09:57:35 JB wrote: > > After RH and Fedora statistics, some more results: > > > > http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fedora-16.html > > Oh, come on JB, do you really think quoting that guy makes any sense? > ... That's not f

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-23 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > I can't speak for F15, but F16 on my laptop takes considerably longer to > boot or log in than F14 did. Try running "systemd-analyze blame". It'll show you which services are taking the longest to start so you can figure out what fat you might

Re: statically-built qemu-[arch] on Fedora

2011-11-23 Thread Itamar Reis Peixoto
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Mr Dash Four wrote: > Is it possible to get/compile/build static qemu-[arch] similar to the > qemu-user-static in Debian? > > I am making use of binfmt_misc and need to execute statically built > qemu-[arch]. Using the "standard" qemu-[arch] won't work because I

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/23/2011 03:08 AM, Ian Malone wrote: > I think F16 has actually improved on F15 in terms of responsiveness > and what works in it. I can't speak for F15, but F16 on my laptop takes considerably longer to boot or log in than F14 did. And, as I reported last night, Compiz doesn't work. I've

Re: Cannot play MP3 files on Totem

2011-11-23 Thread Jonathan Dieter
On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 15:22 +, Paul Smith wrote: > I have installed > > yum install gstreamer* > > and tried several MP3 without any success. On F14 all these MP3 files > could be played with Totem. FWIW, when I upgraded from F15 to F16, I was unable to play *any* media through Totem (despit

Re: abrt isn't catching crashes

2011-11-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:56:15 -0600 Michael Cronenworth wrote: > You might be running into this bug: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752014 Maybe, but erasing all packages with abrt at the beginning of the name fixed it for sure :-). I didn't take the time to try and analyze why it

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-23 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wednesday 23 November 2011 09:57:35 JB wrote: > After RH and Fedora statistics, some more results: > > http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fedora-16.html Oh, come on JB, do you really think quoting that guy makes any sense? If you ever bothered to look around his blog entries, you would easily

Re: Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-23 Thread Kevin Martin
On 11/23/2011 11:50 AM, Jim wrote: > On 11/23/2011 12:31 PM, Kevin Martin wrote: >> On 11/23/2011 11:23 AM, Jim wrote: >>> On 11/23/2011 09:34 AM, mike cloaked wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Jim wrote: >> I can't tell from the messages output you posted if your machine i

Re: abrt isn't catching crashes

2011-11-23 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Tom Horsley wrote: > I don't know, but it is also apparently screwing up the normal > generation of core files by applications. At work I try to > generate core files to make sure my debugger can read them, > and all my core file tests stopped working until I uninstalled > all the abrt packages. Y

Re: F16 gnome wifi

2011-11-23 Thread Bryce Hardy
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Elliott Chapin wrote: > IMO I should be able to turn wifi off from the GUI at any time - not > currently true as far as I can tell. The On/Off switch is right there under the Network icon. Are you saying it doesn't work for you? -- Bryce Hardy -- users mailing

Re: Update of rpmfusion-* on F16-x86_64 is confusing or lost.

2011-11-23 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
2011/11/23 Lucélio Gomes de Freitas : > > Hi friends, > > Ref: Linux Fedora 3.1.1-2.fc16.x86_64 (installed and working aparentely >  100%) > > Verifying new atualizations on KDE environment(F16-x86_64), > I got a window asking to update: > > 1st> rpmfusion-free-release - RPM Fusion(free) Repository

Re: Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170

2011-11-23 Thread Jim
On 11/23/2011 12:31 PM, Kevin Martin wrote: > > On 11/23/2011 11:23 AM, Jim wrote: >> On 11/23/2011 09:34 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Jim wrote: >>> > I can't tell from the messages output you posted if your machine is > x86_64 or not but I had a very ver

Re: Fedora - time to blink

2011-11-23 Thread Fennix
Dear all, Just another thought...I,myself,do not have any political axes to grind. Here I do see some (to my thinking) excessive sensitivities to "newbies" asking (what seems to be reasonable questions...) even if not in the comonally accepted appropriate way/format...I would hope that here, faci

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