Re: Wierd partition behaviour with BTRFS

2014-03-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 12, 2014, at 7:22 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > I think you've stumbled into a bug. Since Btrfs directly supports multiple > devices, it's like LVM or raid in this respect, and for LVM and RAID, > anaconda might be eager to configure multiple device layouts this way. > > So I'm going to be

Re: How do I select which monitor kdm will display login on?

2014-03-12 Thread Ian Chapman
On 09/03/14 17:17, Robin Laing wrote: I have a dual monitor, well, one monitor and one projector that I have configured for presentations. System is using F20. Presently when I start the computer, kdm's login prompt is on the projector instead of the monitor. There are no settings in the sys

Re: Wireless dropping Router

2014-03-12 Thread Max
On 03/12/2014 09:14 PM, Jim wrote: FC18/KDE , I can no longer update F18 any more I have a Dell D600 Latitude that is dropping the router dd-wrt. Wireless networking is okay for about 20- 30 minutes before it drops If I try to reconnect Wlan0 and Connections there is no dd-wrt router shown i

Re: Saving Fedora when installing Windows?

2014-03-12 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 12 March 2014, Timothy Murphy sent: > I've always regarded the Windows bootloader as a black box, > my occasional journeys into the Windows Registry having proved > disastrous. Depending on the version of Windows, and what you want to do, it can be just a boot.ini file in th

Re: Wierd partition behaviour with BTRFS

2014-03-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 12, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > (Sorry for the subject line but it's the best I could come up with) > > I recently installed F20 on a new system with a 120GB SSD and 1TB hard > drive. I'm using the SSD for /, /boot, /var and swap, and the hard drive > for /home. I deci

Re: Wireless dropping Router

2014-03-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/12/2014 06:14 PM, Jim wrote: FC18/KDE , I can no longer update F18 any more You do know, don't you, that F18 has passed End Of Life and there will never be any more updates for it, even for security? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscripti

Wireless dropping Router

2014-03-12 Thread Jim
FC18/KDE , I can no longer update F18 any more I have a Dell D600 Latitude that is dropping the router dd-wrt. Wireless networking is okay for about 20- 30 minutes before it drops If I try to reconnect Wlan0 and Connections there is no dd-wrt router shown in Connections to connect to. I hav

Wierd partition behaviour with BTRFS

2014-03-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
(Sorry for the subject line but it's the best I could come up with) I recently installed F20 on a new system with a 120GB SSD and 1TB hard drive. I'm using the SSD for /, /boot, /var and swap, and the hard drive for /home. I decided to live on the edge and partition /home as BTRFS. All this was do

Making an Accessible Network Install?

2014-03-12 Thread Hunter Jozwiak
Hi guys, I was wondering if it were possible to put Speakup on a CD of Fedora, give it software speech, and make an accessible network install disk? There used to be one, but sadly it is out of business now and has fallen much by the wayside. I knowthe Live CD has Orca if you get the Gnome ver

Re: btrfs subvolume as an iSCSI target?

2014-03-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 12, 2014, at 6:18 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 03/12/2014 04:23 PM, Dan Mossor issued this missive: >> I've been combing the web for a couple days, and most hits I'm finding >> regarding using a btrfs subvolume as an iSCSI target are posts from the >> 2009/2010 timeframe stating that that

Re: btrfs subvolume as an iSCSI target?

2014-03-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 12, 2014, at 5:23 PM, Dan Mossor wrote: > > The issue I believe that is going to stop me is that tgtadm expects a block > device as the target, and btrfs does not provide that. Is there a workaround, > other than using a file in the subvolume as the target? Is there work in > progress

Re: fedora 20 login screen

2014-03-12 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/12/2014 05:17 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: or su - systemsettings If you're going to use su, and only expect to run one command as root: su -c systemsettings will do even better. HTH, HAND. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: htt

Re: btrfs subvolume as an iSCSI target?

2014-03-12 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/12/2014 04:23 PM, Dan Mossor issued this missive: I've been combing the web for a couple days, and most hits I'm finding regarding using a btrfs subvolume as an iSCSI target are posts from the 2009/2010 timeframe stating that that functionality is broken. I'm working on a couple projects h

Re: fedora 20 login screen

2014-03-12 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/13/14 01:50, Dustin Kempter wrote: > im trying to config my laptop running fedora 20. in system settings I have > installed some themes for the login screen but none of them will show up. it > says they are installed on the "get new themes" window but they dont show up. > any advice Yes..

Re: fedora 20 login screen

2014-03-12 Thread Dan Mossor
On 03/12/2014 12:50 PM, Dustin Kempter wrote: im trying to config my laptop running fedora 20. in system settings I have installed some themes for the login screen but none of them will show up. it says they are installed on the "get new themes" window but they dont show up. any advice thanks I

btrfs subvolume as an iSCSI target?

2014-03-12 Thread Dan Mossor
I've been combing the web for a couple days, and most hits I'm finding regarding using a btrfs subvolume as an iSCSI target are posts from the 2009/2010 timeframe stating that that functionality is broken. I'm working on a couple projects here, and one of those involves the research into iSCSI

Re: Fedora 18 not booting after lots of successful boot ups

2014-03-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 12, 2014, at 1:11 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > Anyway I always do a 1/2 dozen reboots with it enabled, checking > systemd-analyze each time; and then disable it and reboot and check > systemd-analyze again. That is, I do this with each new major version of systemd. Because this readahea

Re: Fedora 18 not booting after lots of successful boot ups

2014-03-12 Thread Chris Murphy
For posterity: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696821 It's not exactly the OP's problem, but there appears to be a kernel bug that can cause systemd readahead problems. Anyway I always do a 1/2 dozen reboots with it enabled, checking systemd-analyze each time; and then disable it an

Re: Fedora 18 not booting after lots of successful boot ups

2014-03-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 12, 2014, at 4:36 AM, takCoder wrote: > systemd-readahead[416]: Failed to open pack file: Read-only system I'm not sure the problem is Bluetooth at all. Systemd has a way to optimize boot times with its own read ahead mechanism, and puts the hint for what to read ahead in (I'm guessin

Re: Saving Fedora when installing Windows?

2014-03-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 12, 2014, at 7:06 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Chris Murphy wrote: > >>> I want to upgrade Windows XP on my laptop to Windows 7, >>> but I'd like to be sure that I can get back to Linux afterwards. >>> (I'm sure Windows installation will over-write the MBR.) > >> Which version of Fedora?

Re: Saving Fedora when installing Windows?

2014-03-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 12, 2014, at 6:39 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Tim wrote: > >>> I want to upgrade Windows XP on my laptop to Windows 7, >>> but I'd like to be sure that I can get back to Linux afterwards. >>> (I'm sure Windows installation will over-write the MBR.) > >> Some people modify the Windows bo

how do i use 2 external computer screens?

2014-03-12 Thread Dustin Kempter
i just got a laptop with dual video cards. how would i set it up to use 2 external screens? thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraprojec

fedora 20 login screen

2014-03-12 Thread Dustin Kempter
im trying to config my laptop running fedora 20. in system settings I have installed some themes for the login screen but none of them will show up. it says they are installed on the "get new themes" window but they dont show up. any advice thanks -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Fedora 18 not booting after lots of successful boot ups

2014-03-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 17:57 +0330, takCoder wrote: > would anyone please give me any hints? > can I disable bluetooth servive from repair mode? [Please don't top-post on the Fedora lists. See the Guidelines document referenced at the end of every post.] F18 is EOL, i.e. no longer supported, howev

Re: AMD Catalyst Control Center doesn't work

2014-03-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 14:10:31 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: ATI is known to have a notoriously lousy support for Linux in general and Fedora in particular. For their low-end and oldish cards, they provide specs on which the Linux community has built the open-source radeon driver (which wo

Re: Fedora 18 not booting after lots of successful boot ups

2014-03-12 Thread takCoder
would anyone please give me any hints? can I disable bluetooth servive from repair mode? Best Regards, t.a.k On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 2:06 PM, takCoder wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm new in fedora world and here's my first unsolved problem there.. It's > an un-reasoned hang during boot up of a health

Re: AMD Catalyst Control Center doesn't work

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 03/12/2014 10:10 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > You want the Driver option to be "radeon". Or better yet, rename/remove > your xorg.conf file and let X configure itself automatically. I'm new to fedora. I know how to do that in Debian.. reconfigure-xserver-xorg I don't see a "radeon" driver, is f

Re: AMD Catalyst Control Center doesn't work

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 03/12/2014 10:17 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: > Marko Vojinovic wrote: > >> ATI is known to have a notoriously lousy support for Linux in general >> and Fedora in particular. For their low-end and oldish cards, >> they provide specs on which the Linux community has built the >> open-source radeon drive

Re: AMD Catalyst Control Center doesn't work

2014-03-12 Thread Rex Dieter
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > ATI is known to have a notoriously lousy support for Linux in general > and Fedora in particular. For their low-end and oldish cards, > they provide specs on which the Linux community has built the > open-source radeon driver (which works well). For their high-end cards, >

Re: AMD Catalyst Control Center doesn't work

2014-03-12 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:11:01 -0400 Paul Cartwright wrote: > I have googled & read all I could find, with no apparent solution in > sight. I have a Dell desktop with a Radeon HD 5670 video card : > lspci|grep VGA > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. > [AMD/ATI] Redwood

Re: Saving Fedora when installing Windows?

2014-03-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
Mark Haney wrote: >> I want to upgrade Windows XP on my laptop to Windows 7, but I'd >> like to be sure that I can get back to Linux afterwards. (I'm sure >> Windows installation will over-write the MBR.) > A quick google popped this up: > https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/8561/cannot-boo

Re: Saving Fedora when installing Windows?

2014-03-12 Thread Mark Haney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/12/14 08:39, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Tim wrote: > >>> I want to upgrade Windows XP on my laptop to Windows 7, but I'd >>> like to be sure that I can get back to Linux afterwards. (I'm >>> sure Windows installation will over-write the MBR.) >

AMD Catalyst Control Center doesn't work

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Cartwright
I have googled & read all I could find, with no apparent solution in sight. I have a Dell desktop with a Radeon HD 5670 video card : lspci|grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Redwood XT [Radeon HD 5670/5690/5730] I installed the amd catalyst via the f

Re: Saving Fedora when installing Windows?

2014-03-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
Chris Murphy wrote: >> I want to upgrade Windows XP on my laptop to Windows 7, >> but I'd like to be sure that I can get back to Linux afterwards. >> (I'm sure Windows installation will over-write the MBR.) > Which version of Fedora? I'm running Fedora-20/KDE. >> One thing I tried without suc

Re: Saving Fedora when installing Windows?

2014-03-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
Tim wrote: >> I want to upgrade Windows XP on my laptop to Windows 7, >> but I'd like to be sure that I can get back to Linux afterwards. >> (I'm sure Windows installation will over-write the MBR.) > Some people modify the Windows bootloader, so that *it* can be used to > boot Linux. You *can* h

RE: Java under Fedora

2014-03-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
Patrick Kobly wrote: > FWIW, If you're looking to do anything moderately serious, you're going to > want to use Maven to manage your build and dependencies... I normally use Eclipse, but when looking into servlets I thought it would be simplest to use Java directly, at least to begin with. I fin

Re: Saving Fedora when installing Windows?

2014-03-12 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 11 March 2014, Timothy Murphy sent: > I want to upgrade Windows XP on my laptop to Windows 7, > but I'd like to be sure that I can get back to Linux afterwards. > (I'm sure Windows installation will over-write the MBR.) Some people modify the Windows bootloader, so that *it

Re: Bluetooth mouse won't connect - SOLVED

2014-03-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2014-03-08 at 22:21 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2014-03-09 at 04:52 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 03/08/14 22:01, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > Various things about mice, such as: > > > > > >> > [ 3.188] (II) config/udev: Adding input device 2.4G Receiver > > >> >

Fedora 18 not booting after lots of successful boot ups

2014-03-12 Thread takCoder
Hi All, I'm new in fedora world and here's my first unsolved problem there.. It's an un-reasoned hang during boot up of a healthy system.. I have installed fedora 18 on a ssd, followed a given process to install required packages of my goal system, and it was working fine before.. Today I power

Re: f20 lvm - inactive LV

2014-03-12 Thread Michal Kopacki
- Original Message - From: "Chris Murphy" To: mkopa...@gmail.com, "Community support for Fedora users" Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 3:29:13 AM Subject: Re: f20 lvm - inactive LV I would start with: journalctl -b -x -o short-monotonic --no-pager And then start search for some of t