Fedora on a x86 (AMD) Tablet - the good the bad and the ugly

2013-05-30 Thread Fernando Cassia
I've been enjoying my 'new' (It's actually a bit old, being based in the original AMD Brazos platform, z01 CPU, but still, dual-core and updated to 8GB RAM, purchased late 2012 and only having had time to play with it now) The good news: Fedora boots fine and runs smoothly, BUT!... 1. The Gno

How do I restore a evolution backup from v 2.30.3 (f13) to the current evolution version 3.6.4?

2013-05-30 Thread Terry Polzin
I don't/can't upgrade the machine outright. Too many issues, but I can't seem to get my mail folders back or my accounts to sync to the pop server if I do a restore via the menu. Is the format different? How do I make this quantum leap? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To u

Gnome desktop issues

2013-05-30 Thread Jeffrey Ross
How do I reset my desktop back to what was there on a fresh install, or am I better off creating a new home directory and simply moving my "known" files back? When I log in the screen flashes the icons (other accounts are fine) and the CPU goes to 100% with the "tracker-extract" process OS F

Re: Fwd: Thursday is Spice Test Day!

2013-05-30 Thread jdow
On 2013/05/30 11:08, poma wrote: On 30.05.2013 19:27, Doug wrote: … Besides, Spice is a bad name for some kind of media program; Spice is the name of a powerful and useful electronic engineering program! Both sides should be more precise in the terminology, so they don't mix uppercase and lowe

Re: Fwd: Thursday is Spice Test Day!

2013-05-30 Thread poma
On 30.05.2013 19:23, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 15:53 +0200, poma wrote: >> On 30.05.2013 14:16, Martin Holec wrote: >>> Are you tired of using VNC? >> >> Nope. >> Do you have any issues with VNC? > > It's slow, doesn't have as good guest integration as Spice, and misses > lots

Re: Fwd: Thursday is Spice Test Day!

2013-05-30 Thread poma
On 30.05.2013 19:27, Doug wrote: … > Besides, Spice is a bad name for some kind of media program; Spice > is the name of a powerful and useful electronic engineering program! Both sides should be more precise in the terminology, so they don't mix uppercase and lowercase, sure. ;) http://www.spice

Re: Fwd: Thursday is Spice Test Day!

2013-05-30 Thread Doug
On 05/30/2013 09:53 AM, poma wrote: On 30.05.2013 14:16, Martin Holec wrote: Are you tired of using VNC? Nope. Do you have any issues with VNC? poma Besides, Spice is a bad name for some kind of media program; Spice is the name of a powerful and useful electronic engineering program! --dou

Re: losing WiFi Access - prompted for password

2013-05-30 Thread Steven Stern
On 05/30/2013 11:41 AM, staticsafe wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:35:00AM -0500, Steven Stern wrote: >> F18... >> >> Over the last few days, I'm getting prompted to re-enter my password for >> my WiFi network. It's not the router because no other device on the >> network seems to be having pr

Re: losing WiFi Access - prompted for password

2013-05-30 Thread staticsafe
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:35:00AM -0500, Steven Stern wrote: > F18... > > Over the last few days, I'm getting prompted to re-enter my password for > my WiFi network. It's not the router because no other device on the > network seems to be having problems. > > Potential changes on my system incl

losing WiFi Access - prompted for password

2013-05-30 Thread Steven Stern
F18... Over the last few days, I'm getting prompted to re-enter my password for my WiFi network. It's not the router because no other device on the network seems to be having problems. Potential changes on my system include May 07 21:39:32 Updated: 1:wpa_supplicant-1.1-1.fc18.x86_64 May 25 15:3

Re: Zathura - A Space Adventure

2013-05-30 Thread poma
… > Fedora 18 > ? http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=422951 Sorry Ran, you'll get your 0.2.3 with Erwin's cat. Sorry Ran, you'll get your 0.2.3 without Erwin's cat. :) > Fedora 19 > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=422251 > Fedora 20 > http://koji.fedoraproj

Re: F17 losing settings

2013-05-30 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 28 May 2013 13:35:06 -0400, Alan Gagne wrote: > [agagne@dw-agagne ~]$ gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences > show-hidden-files true [agagne@dw-agagne ~]$ gsettings get > org.gnome.nautilus.preferences show-hidden-files true Many, many thanks! I was getting downright irri

Re: Fedora 18 under Hyper-V on Server 2012

2013-05-30 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 30.05.2013 11:34, schrieb John Whitley: > Am I correct in assuming that Fedora 18 kernel has the latest Microsoft > Integration Modules? most likely since they are upstream output of "lsmod" in the guest may help however, you need to configure the ocrrect virtual hardware Linux jas as examp

RE: Wireless networking degraded with Fedora 18

2013-05-30 Thread Miner, Jonathan W (US SSA)
-Original Message- From: Ranjan Maitra [mailto:maitra.mbox.igno...@inbox.com] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 8:36 AM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: Wireless networking degraded with Fedora 18 On Thu, 30 May 2013 11:24:05 + "Miner, Jonathan W (US SSA)" wrote: > I

problems updating to abrt-libs-2.1.4-3.fc18.x86_64

2013-05-30 Thread Maurizio Marini
I have had meny issue this morning, after yum update yum update Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit fedora/18/x86_64/metalink

Re: F18 grublegacy boot chainload to md grub2?

2013-05-30 Thread Nate Pearlstein
Got it working with grub2 installed in mbr instead of grub but not what I wanted. Will play with it on a VM for now. -- Nate Pearlstein - npe...@sgi.com - Product Support Engineer On May 29, 2013, at 9:51 AM, Nate Pearlstein wrote: > Has anyone had any luck with a legacy grub boot menu chai

Re: Further to postgres on Rails in Fedora 18 but OT

2013-05-30 Thread Max Pyziur
On Thu, 30 May 2013, Roger wrote: Apologies for top post Thanks this is most helpful One thing that I forgot to mention is tables that are in other schemas besides the public schema. Personally, I don't build a database with tables in other schemas; but it does add a way of keeping tables

Re: Fwd: Thursday is Spice Test Day!

2013-05-30 Thread poma
On 30.05.2013 14:16, Martin Holec wrote: > Are you tired of using VNC? Nope. Do you have any issues with VNC? poma -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedora

Re: Wireless networking degraded with Fedora 18

2013-05-30 Thread Tim
Miner, Jonathan W (US SSA): >> I recently upgraded to Fedora 18, and have noticed a big difference >> between wireless networking performance. With Fedora 18 running, and >> sitting about 10 feet from a Linksys WAP54G access point I get "one >> bar" on the Gnome icon... if I double the distance, I

Re: Wireless networking degraded with Fedora 18

2013-05-30 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 30 May 2013 11:24:05 + "Miner, Jonathan W (US SSA)" wrote: > I have an HP laptop with an integrated Broadcom controller: > > 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless > LAN Controller (rev 01) > > I recently upgraded to Fedora 18, and have notice

Fwd: Thursday is Spice Test Day!

2013-05-30 Thread Martin Holec
Are you tired of using VNC? Best Regards, Martin Holec Desktop QE, Red Hat Brno - Forwarded Message - From: "David Jaša" To: brno-memo-l...@redhat.com, spice-l...@redhat.com, tech-l...@redhat.com, desktop-qa-l...@redhat.com Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 10:37:04 PM Subject: Thursday is

Wireless networking degraded with Fedora 18

2013-05-30 Thread Miner, Jonathan W (US SSA)
I have an HP laptop with an integrated Broadcom controller: 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01) I recently upgraded to Fedora 18, and have noticed a big difference between wireless networking performance. With Fedora 18 running,

RE:Fedora 18

2013-05-30 Thread Alan Gagne
I think my Fedora 18 uses nautilus for file management, but it may be nemo, I've never taken any notice. I'm wondering if I can set a default somewhere so that when opening ruby .rb and .erb rails files in my Rails development directory it will default to using Geany instead of GEdit. Is there s

Fedora 18 under Hyper-V on Server 2012

2013-05-30 Thread John Whitley
I have been persuaded to move an application running under linux on to a Hyper-V VM. I am having significant performance issues and hope some one can cast some light on them. I am having to run on a legacy network card as the 'synthetic' NIC gives poor through put. This gives a drop of abou

Re: lpr font

2013-05-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
Joachim Backes wrote: >>> a2ps may help you just need a postscript printer. >> >> I did try that, but it seemed equally difficult to control, >> eg to print in larger or smaller font. > Use the a2ps options "-f", or the options "-1" .. "-9" Thanks, I'll try that next time. Incidentally, I foun