Re: Update regarding HDMI frustration

2012-01-15 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Monday 16 January 2012 00:03:35 Fedora User wrote: > A post for posterity. The essence of this issue was that, using KDE, the > highest resolution that was offered for my HDTV, connected to my > laptop via HDMI, was 1024x768. A number of people made a number of > suggestions. > > Turns out that

Update regarding HDMI frustration

2012-01-15 Thread Fedora User
A post for posterity. The essence of this issue was that, using KDE, the highest resolution that was offered for my HDTV, connected to my laptop via HDMI, was 1024x768. A number of people made a number of suggestions. Turns out that the problem rested in a check box toggle for unified displays. Un

Re: VLC as a root

2012-01-15 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Kevin Wilson wrote: > Hi, > I know that this is strongly discouraged; Yet, I am working in a > closed WAN and I want to > run VLC as root. How can I achieve it ?  Is there a way (beside building VLC > ?) No. The block on running as root can only be disabled at b

Re: When is EOL not EOL

2012-01-15 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 01/15/12 17:46, Aaron Konstam wrote: I was surprised when my EOL F14 displayed an icon for updating. And gnome-chrome was installed. So are we at EOL for F14. The reason you are getting updates for chrome is because you have installed the google-chrome.repo file for yum. This is independent

Re: VLC as a root

2012-01-15 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 15 January 2012 18:54:34 Kevin Wilson wrote: > I know that this is strongly discouraged; Yet, I am working in a > closed WAN and I want to > run VLC as root. Do you know *why* it is discouraged? Security of a "closed WAN" doesn't have much to do with logging into a GUI as root. > How c

Re: f16/Gnome - on battery display dimming even though option disabled

2012-01-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 01/15/2012 02:08 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have 'Dim screen to save power' NOT selected, but a few sec after any key/mouse activity the screen dims. This is a pain. Where do I look to see what is going wrong??? A reboot (overdue with the updates over the weekend) and things are wor

Re: RPM fusion key updating problem (Resolved)

2012-01-15 Thread david walcroft
On 01/16/2012 11:13 AM, Charles Zeitler wrote: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. what do you get from: ls -l /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-16-i386 ? charles zeitler Thanks charles. [david@reddwarf ~]$ ls -l /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-

Re: Eee PC WMI hotkeys?

2012-01-15 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Tom Horsley writes: Anyone know why the heck this shows up in the /proc/bus/input/devices file on my system? I: Bus=0019 Vendor= Product= Version= N: Name="Eee PC WMI hotkeys" P: Phys=eeepc-wmi/input0 S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/eeepc-wmi/input/input4 U: Uniq= H: Handlers=kbd event4

Re: When is EOL not EOL

2012-01-15 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Aaron Konstam writes: I was surprised when my EOL F14 displayed an icon for updating. And gnome-chrome was installed. So are we at EOL for F14. I do not see a gnome-chrome rpm in the Fedora repo. This must be an update from a non-Fedora repo. pgpPKTlkt7wR3.pgp Description: PGP signature -

Re: RPM fusion key updating problem

2012-01-15 Thread Charles Zeitler
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. >> what do you get from: >> ls -l /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-16-i386 >> ? >> >> charles zeitler > > > Thanks charles. > > [david@reddwarf ~]$ ls -l > /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-16-i386 > ls:

Eee PC WMI hotkeys?

2012-01-15 Thread Tom Horsley
Anyone know why the heck this shows up in the /proc/bus/input/devices file on my system? I: Bus=0019 Vendor= Product= Version= N: Name="Eee PC WMI hotkeys" P: Phys=eeepc-wmi/input0 S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/eeepc-wmi/input/input4 U: Uniq= H: Handlers=kbd event4 rfkill B: PROP=0 B: EV

Re: Kernel update 3.1.8-2.fc16

2012-01-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:03:04 +1000, david walcroft wrote: > I notice with this mornings yum update that there is a new kernel > ' 3.1.8-2.fc16 PAE' but there are no kernel headers included in the > update.Is it safe to reboot with this kernel without them? I ran 3.1.8-2 for a bit without is

Kernel update 3.1.8-2.fc16

2012-01-15 Thread david walcroft
I notice with this mornings yum update that there is a new kernel ' 3.1.8-2.fc16 PAE' but there are no kernel headers included in the update.Is it safe to reboot with this kernel without them? Thanks david -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscripti

When is EOL not EOL

2012-01-15 Thread Aaron Konstam
I was surprised when my EOL F14 displayed an icon for updating. And gnome-chrome was installed. So are we at EOL for F14. -- === You're definitely on their list. The question to ask next is what list it is. ==

Re: Booting a computr in EFI mode.

2012-01-15 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 09:28 +1000, david walcroft wrote: > On 01/15/2012 07:07 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > > On 15/01/12 00:41, david walcroft wrote: > >>> No unless you install as "new", instead of upgrade. > >>> > >>> http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/11/15/fedora-16-gpt-disk-partitioning-guide/ > >>

Re: RPM fusion key updating problem

2012-01-15 Thread david walcroft
On 01/16/2012 10:07 AM, Charles Zeitler wrote: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. what do you get from: ls -l /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-16-i386 ? charles zeitler Thanks charles. [david@reddwarf ~]$ ls -l /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonf

Re: RPM fusion key updating problem

2012-01-15 Thread Charles Zeitler
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. what do you get from: ls -l /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-16-i386 ? charles zeitler -- Love is the law, love under will. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opti

RPM fusion key updating problem

2012-01-15 Thread david walcroft
Yum update this morning came up with this error:- Downloading Packages: warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 952f3af8: NOKEY Retrieving key from file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-16-i386 GPG key retrieval failed: [Errno 14] Could not o

Re: Booting a computr in EFI mode.

2012-01-15 Thread david walcroft
On 01/15/2012 07:07 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: On 15/01/12 00:41, david walcroft wrote: No unless you install as "new", instead of upgrade. http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/11/15/fedora-16-gpt-disk-partitioning-guide/ I read the web page and does not say anything about custom created partitions,

Re: Sound

2012-01-15 Thread Edward Martinez
On 01/15/12 15:42, Edward Martinez wrote: On 01/15/12 03:17, Patrick Dupre wrote: The recommendations are to create a file /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf But I do not know which model I should give: options snd_hda_intel model=(recommended parameter) options snd_hda_intel model=auto

Re: Sound

2012-01-15 Thread Edward Martinez
On 01/15/12 03:17, Patrick Dupre wrote: The recommendations are to create a file /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf But I do not know which model I should give: options snd_hda_intel model=(recommended parameter) options snd_hda_intel model=auto -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: flash drive reporting wrong size, how to fix?

2012-01-15 Thread Pete Travis
As part of your experiment, you should dd an image of the card and examine it with testdisk and photorec. --pete On Jan 15, 2012 2:17 PM, "Ian Malone" wrote: > On 15 January 2012 19:59, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 01/15/2012 11:45 AM, Ian Malone wrote: > >> > >> The only reason I > >> haven't got a

Re: sudoers file

2012-01-15 Thread Peter Larsen
On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 05:28 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi, > > > Any documentation to set up sudoers file apart from man sudoers ? Take a look in /usr/share/doc/sudo* Several examples, read-mes etc. -- Best Regards Peter Larsen Wise words of the day: * Jes wonders why so many people

Somewhat OT: Windows won't boot after update

2012-01-15 Thread Sergio Belkin
Hi, I'm using F16 and Windows 7 (with Grub2 as bootloader). I'm only use Windows 7 a few if times in my job. After a "Windows Update", Windows 7 Won't boot anymore. I have no idea why and how can I restore it. My partitions are: Model: ATA HITACHI HTS54505 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 500GB Sector siz

Re: flash drive reporting wrong size, how to fix?

2012-01-15 Thread Ian Malone
On 15 January 2012 19:59, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 01/15/2012 11:45 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >> >> The only reason I >> haven't got a new one yet is 2GB ones are hard to find these days. > > > Can you borrow another card (any size) and see if either Linux or Windows > can deal with it?  If so, it's the c

F-16/64 bit no sound -

2012-01-15 Thread Bob Goodwin
I have two hard drives, only one available sata connection. F-15 on the first drive has sound and works as expected with that drive plugged in. The new install of F-16 on the second drive has no sound, Alsa reports "no available device." As n

Re: flash drive reporting wrong size, how to fix?

2012-01-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/15/2012 11:45 AM, Ian Malone wrote: The only reason I haven't got a new one yet is 2GB ones are hard to find these days. Can you borrow another card (any size) and see if either Linux or Windows can deal with it? If so, it's the card. If not it's probably a hardware issue because havi

Re: flash drive reporting wrong size, how to fix?

2012-01-15 Thread Ian Malone
On 15 January 2012 15:47, Ian Malone wrote: > On 15 January 2012 00:47, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 22:52 +, Ian Malone wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've got a 2GB microSD card that I've been using a while (so I'm >>> confident that at one point it was a 2GB card and isn't a

Re: Mounting a partition within a dd image of a windows drive

2012-01-15 Thread JD
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > JD writes: > > « HTML content follows » >> Dear all, >> I have a dd image of a windows disk. >> >> I run >> >> losetup /dev/loop0 winDrive.dd >> >> Then >> >> fdisk -l /dev/loop0 >> >> and it shows there is 1 partition: >> >> /dev/loop0p1

Re: Mounting a partition within a dd image of a windows drive

2012-01-15 Thread JD
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Jon Ingason wrote: > 2012-01-14 20:33, JD skrev: > >> Dear all, >> I have a dd image of a windows disk. >> >> I run >> >> losetup /dev/loop0 winDrive.dd >> >> Then >> >> fdisk -l /dev/loop0 >> >> and it shows there is 1 partition: >> >> /dev/loop0p1 etc .

f16/Gnome - on battery display dimming even though option disabled

2012-01-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have 'Dim screen to save power' NOT selected, but a few sec after any key/mouse activity the screen dims. This is a pain. Where do I look to see what is going wrong??? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproj

Re: Logitech MX Revolution Mouse Problems, wheel button

2012-01-15 Thread Patrick Kobly
Don't know what new magic is in the new DE's but I've always just used the tool revoco. Google it, it's a fairly easy compile / install. Fwiw, to other folks without a revo, the complication is that the mouse wheel has 2 modes - clicky and freewheel. Default mode for the mouse is that clicking

Re: Logitech MX Revolution Mouse Problems, wheel button

2012-01-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:05:45 -0500 William M. Quarles wrote: > Where are you getting these names from? Mostly from xinput --list and guessing (since xinput --list insists on listing things in a format where it is close to impossible to tell exactly what the "device name" part of the listing is).

Re: VLC as a root

2012-01-15 Thread John Maclean
On 01/15/2012 04:54 PM, Kevin Wilson wrote: Hi, I know that this is strongly discouraged; Yet, I am working in a closed WAN and I want to run VLC as root. How can I achieve it ? Is there a way (beside building VLC ?) rgs, Kevin. Why? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

VLC as a root

2012-01-15 Thread Kevin Wilson
Hi, I know that this is strongly discouraged; Yet, I am working in a closed WAN and I want to run VLC as root. How can I achieve it ? Is there a way (beside building VLC ?) rgs, Kevin. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin

Re: Logitech MX Revolution Mouse Problems, wheel button

2012-01-15 Thread William M. Quarles
On 01/15/2012 10:37 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:19:14 -0500 William M. Quarles wrote: Does anybody know how I might go about fixing this issue more permanently? If there is a bug report that should be filed on this, what package should I report it against? Don't know what Gn

Re: flash drive reporting wrong size, how to fix?

2012-01-15 Thread Ian Malone
On 15 January 2012 00:47, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 22:52 +, Ian Malone wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've got a 2GB microSD card that I've been using a while (so I'm >> confident that at one point it was a 2GB card and isn't a 'fake'). >> Recently it stopped responding (the las

Re: Logitech MX Revolution Mouse Problems, wheel button

2012-01-15 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:19:14 -0500 William M. Quarles wrote: > Does anybody know how I might go about fixing this issue more > permanently? If there is a bug report that should be filed on this, what > package should I report it against? Don't know what Gnome or KDE might be doing automatically

Logitech MX Revolution Mouse Problems, wheel button

2012-01-15 Thread William M. Quarles
Hi, I recently installed Fedora 15 after a long respite from Fedora 14, for the first time in x86_64, and I was excited to see that I could finally use the wheel button on my MX Logitech Revolution mouse as the "middle" button for opening new tabs in Firefox and for instant select-copy-paste

Re: Utility to print .cdr files?

2012-01-15 Thread Richard Shaw
2012/1/15 Lucélio Gomes de Freitas : > Hi fiends, I think you meant friends? :) > I received and have only to print a ".cdr" file crated by "Corell draw". > > Any help with the right utility? I can't find one. I did a quick google search and it looks like inkscape[1] may do it and is available

Utility to print .cdr files?

2012-01-15 Thread Lucélio Gomes de Freitas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi fiends, I received and have only to print a ".cdr" file crated by "Corell draw". Any help with the right utility? I can't find one. Thanks. - -- Lucélio Gomes de Freitas ETFCSF=> U.G.F.=> P.U.C.(RJ) Engº, Analista Suporte(Free Mind). Email: aa

Re: Sound

2012-01-15 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jan 2012, Rick Sewill wrote: > >> On Saturday, January 14, 2012 07:47:05 PM Patrick Dupre wrote: >> Hello, >> >> After upgrade from fedora 14 to fedora 16 on a Inspiron 9400, I lost >> the sound! > If you are now using pulse audio

Re: gnome3

2012-01-15 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, It looks like that I am missing something. opera does not complains, but if I right click on an extension (let say dock), then it goes to: extensions.gnome.org/extension/17/dock/ Then what should I do? I do not know how to install the extension!! "Click on the button to the right of the

Re: Sound

2012-01-15 Thread Patrick Dupre
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012, Rick Sewill wrote: On Saturday, January 14, 2012 07:47:05 PM Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, After upgrade from fedora 14 to fedora 16 on a Inspiron 9400, I lost the sound! vlc run OK, but no sound! How can I check the hardware drivers? Thank. If you are now using pulse audi

Re: Sound

2012-01-15 Thread Rick Sewill
On Saturday, January 14, 2012 07:47:05 PM Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > After upgrade from fedora 14 to fedora 16 on a Inspiron 9400, I lost > the sound! > vlc run OK, but no sound! > How can I check the hardware drivers? > > Thank. If you are now using pulse audio, and don't have pavucontro

Re: gnome3

2012-01-15 Thread Patrick Dupre
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012, Constantine wrote: Hi! If you use google-chrome than it has some problem with https://extensions.gnome.org/ in current version of gnome-shell. Just try to do it via firefox. I only use firefox. On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, I tried to

Re: gnome3

2012-01-15 Thread Constantine
Hi! If you use google-chrome than it has some problem with https://extensions.gnome.org/ in current version of gnome-shell. Just try to do it via firefox. On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to install some exentions from https://extensions.gnome.org/ > but

gnome3

2012-01-15 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I tried to install some exentions from https://extensions.gnome.org/ but I get: You do not appear to have an up to date version of GNOME3. You won't be able to install extensions from here. See the about page for more information While: rpm -q gnome-shell gnome-shell-3.2.1-2.fc16.i686

Re: Sound

2012-01-15 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, Thank for the help. More information ls /etc/modprobe.d/ anaconda.conf blacklist-visor.conf dist.conf libmlx4.conf udlfb.conf blacklist.conf dist-alsa.confdist-oss.conf openfwwf.conf Here is output of alsa-info.sh --no-upload +++ upload=t

Re: Samsung printer won't print

2012-01-15 Thread mike cloaked
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:57 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > The configs were before I used splix and can look up my old notes on > the issue.  However if you have a previously defined printer before > you installed the splix package the way I would proceed is to delete > I will dig out my notes late

Re: Samsung printer won't print

2012-01-15 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Jim wrote: > On 01/14/2012 11:29 AM, mike cloaked wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Tim Waugh  wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 10:33 +, mike cloaked wrote: However nowadays I simply install the splix package and the system recog

Re: Booting a computr in EFI mode.

2012-01-15 Thread Frank Murphy
On 15/01/12 00:41, david walcroft wrote: No unless you install as "new", instead of upgrade. http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/11/15/fedora-16-gpt-disk-partitioning-guide/ I read the web page and does not say anything about custom created partitions,which I use,what happens regarding GPT in this

Re: Sound

2012-01-15 Thread Edward Martinez
On 01/15/12 01:59, Edward Martinez wrote: On 01/14/12 17:47, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, After upgrade from fedora 14 to fedora 16 on a Inspiron 9400, I lost the sound! vlc run OK, but no sound! How can I check the hardware drivers? Thank. may be using incorrect model parameter: check

Re: Sound

2012-01-15 Thread Edward Martinez
On 01/14/12 17:47, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, After upgrade from fedora 14 to fedora 16 on a Inspiron 9400, I lost the sound! vlc run OK, but no sound! How can I check the hardware drivers? Thank. may be using incorrect model parameter: check if "/etc/modprobe.d/snd_hda_intel.conf" f