Re: f-18 scfolling -

2013-01-16 Thread Brian Mury
Hi Joe, It says here, quite clearly, that the OP is using Xfce, not Gnome. Oops, you're right, I missed that. Thanks for pointing it out. even if he were, why should he have to change themes to get back functionality that's been standard for over a decade? Because that's the default theme

Re: f-18 scfolling -

2013-01-16 Thread Brian Mury
Hi Bob, Are you using GNOME? The default GNOME theme removed the scroll buttons (they'll be missing in lots of other places too). Changing the theme should bring them back. This change was in Gnome 3.4, so you should have seen it in F17 too. Brian On 16-Jan-13 12:54, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Vir

Re: Problems with update -- redhat-lsb conflicts

2012-06-25 Thread Brian Mury
On 6/24/2012 10:17 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: It only affects those packages if you don't know about running "yum --skip-broken update" yet. If you disagree, post the Yum output. --skip-broken doesn't work for the broken redhat-lsb update. I have to manually exclude the redhat-lsb packages ev

Re: bash: ./a.out: Permission denied

2011-10-19 Thread Brian Mury
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 09:50, shailesh wrote: > > when i try to run compiled c program ("./a.out") get error > bash: ./a.out: Permission denied chmod u+x a.out -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mail

Re: Serial port permissions -

2011-10-18 Thread Brian Mury
On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 21:00 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Ok, I made those settings on the second computer, the Dell, and > the signals toggle just as you said. Great! > It's set to use Pulseaudio and I've been setting audio levels > with "Pulse Audio Volume Control

Re: Serial port permissions -

2011-10-18 Thread Brian Mury
On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 00:05 +, g wrote: > i am formerly, WB4OYI, Whiskey Be for Old Yellow Indian. it took me > less than 10 minutes to come up with that one. 8-) Nice to meet you! I'm VE7NGR - No Good Radio ;-). > i would have continued with ham radio, where it not for a 'lid' > stealing my

Re: Serial port permissions -

2011-10-18 Thread Brian Mury
On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 19:13 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > No GPS. An old Kenwood TS440S, has antenna tuner but no external > digital control. It also has AFSK in and out, as well as a DIN > connector with everything at one point, date, ptt, mic. mute, > etc. I plan to

Re: Serial port permissions -

2011-10-18 Thread Brian Mury
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:30, g wrote: > what you have not communicated, are you connecting to a modem, or to > another computer? Neither. He is trying to use a RS-232 control signal as an input to a simple transistor or optocoupler circuit, which will ground the "push to talk" input to a radio

Re: Serial port permissions -

2011-10-18 Thread Brian Mury
>     I guess the only thin I may have that I could tie to a serial port >     would be an old dial ip modem if I can find it. I don't even have >     a wired telephone line, cell phones only in this house. But the >     modem would do for testing. Or I could cut up this serial cable >     and make

Re: Serial port permissions -

2011-10-18 Thread Brian Mury
>[bobg@box9 ~]$ ll -al /dev/ttyS* >crw-rw. 1 root dialout 4, 64 Oct 18 03:14 /dev/ttyS0 >crw-rw. 1 root dialout 4, 65 Oct 18 03:14 /dev/ttyS1 >crw-rw. 1 root dialout 4, 66 Oct 18 03:14 /dev/ttyS2 >crw-rw. 1 root dialout 4,

Re: Serial port permissions -

2011-10-18 Thread Brian Mury
On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 11:36 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > How do I determine if I have the right serial port > permissions, where do I look? The serial port device should be owned by root, and belong to the dialout group, with both the owner and the group having read and writ

Re: Linpsk audio -

2011-10-18 Thread Brian Mury
On Sat, 2011-10-15 at 21:20 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I'm waiting for a connector to arrive but I'm concerned about > getting a transmitter key signal. So far nothing I have done has > shown up in the serial port at DTR or RTS. I wonder if this > works for others?

Re: Linpsk audio -

2011-10-15 Thread Brian Mury
On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 10:23 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Thanks for the advice. No problem Bob! Looks like you answered your own questions before I saw them. Post if you have more and I'll do my best to answer them. Fldigi seems to be the most popular digimode program for Linux, BTW. It su

Re: Any USB-connected parallel port devices in use?

2011-10-15 Thread Brian Mury
On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 13:10 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > My parallel-port printer is connected via a Belikin parallel-port-to- > USB connector. Worked fine in F14, completely broken in F15. Bugzilla > discussion (742398) places the blame on the driver (uss720) for those > converters, and there

Re: Linpsk audio -

2011-10-12 Thread Brian Mury
On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 10:29 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > A work-around for the non-functioning Linpsk was to install > psk31lx from Ted at http://wa0eir.home.mchsi.com/ > > Psk31lx installed easily and worked. Somehow I missed your original message or I would have replied -

Re: yum list updates gives different results user vs root

2011-06-24 Thread Brian Mury
On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 13:22 -0700, Darlene Wallach wrote: > I'm getting different results from "yum list updates" when I do it as > user vs root: > > as user: > * fedora: mirror.stanford.edu > * rpmfusion-free: mirrors.tummy.com > * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirrors.tummy.com > * rpmfusion-nonfr

Re: Gnome3

2011-06-15 Thread Brian Mury
On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 19:17 -0400, Jayson Rowe wrote: > The other way to get to your smaller windows is to either move your mouse > to the upper left-hand corener of your screen, or tap the "Super" (Windows > Key if your keyboard has one) which will bring up all windows you have > open at the ti

Re: Further mysteries of F15 and Gnome3 .

2011-06-14 Thread Brian Mury
On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 11:46 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 06/14/2011 10:41 AM, Alexander Volovics wrote: > > 1) open a terminal > > 2) right clik on the terminal window with the mouse and select > >'Open Terminal' > > 3) press 'Ctrl+Alt+Shit+DownArrow' > > 4) right clik on the terminal win

Re: KVM x VirtualBox

2011-05-30 Thread Brian Mury
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:41, wrote: > Hi, > > I was hoping someone with actual experience running a recent VirtualBox on > Fedora would step in and either tell "it's ok to use the Oracle repos" or > "using the Oracle repos causes X, you have to do Y do workaround or use the > repos from Y as

Re: Spamassassin behaving strangely

2011-01-13 Thread Brian Mury
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 22:01 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: > Its great to use procmail - however if spamassasin has tagged > something as spam - there is no point in running sa-learn --spam on the > what SA has already identified as spam - only use it on things it missed. Training a bayesian filt

Pidgn: multiple MSN logins doesn't work

2010-12-13 Thread Brian Mury
The latest version of Pidgin (2.7.7) supports multiple MSN logins (in other words, the ability to be logged in from more than one place at the same time). This works for me with the Windows Pidgin client, but not the Linux client. According to the Pidgin team, this is because this feature is not

Re: Re:

2010-10-07 Thread Brian Mury
On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 08:26 -0700, James Mckenzie wrote: > Brian Mury wrote: > >This isn't a moderated list. > > > FYI, yes this list has moderators. However, messages sent by > subscribed users are not blocked. By definition, a moderated email list is one where mess

Re: Re:

2010-10-07 Thread Brian Mury
On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 08:13 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > How did this despicable character get through on a moderated list? This isn't a moderated list. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/li

Re: Ugly mouse cursor

2010-10-06 Thread Brian Mury
On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 12:57 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > This seems to set the normal point. It sets all the pointers, not just the normal pointer. > Is there a way to set the waiting pointer? I don't think there is a configuration option to set the busy pointer independently of the other po

Re: Ugly mouse cursor

2010-10-06 Thread Brian Mury
On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 08:44 -0500, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > I guess I'll just put up with the ugly mouse pointer... yum install bluecurve-cursor-theme Assuming you are using GNOME: System->Preferences->Appearance menu Customize button on the Theme tab Switch to Pointer tab Select Bluecurve (or

Re: Fedora updates getting more like Windows every day

2010-08-23 Thread Brian Mury
On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 14:37 +0930, Tim wrote: > At least, with us, you generally only have to reboot to use the update. > You can stay on the prior one, in the meantime. Unlike Windows, which > often has to reboot, you can't keep on using the computer, or other > things won't install until you reb

Re: Fedora updates getting more like Windows every day

2010-08-23 Thread Brian Mury
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 15:40 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I don't use package-kit, but yum-utils contains a clever little Python > script called needs-restarting which you can run after updating: Very useful - thank you very much! Brian -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Fedora updates getting more like Windows every day

2010-08-22 Thread Brian Mury
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 10:37 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > If it is not a kernel update then it will most likely not require > a reboot. Everything else can be made functional through a service > restart at most. Perhaps. However, package-kit more often than not tells me I must reboot after in

Re: Lots of instabilities in F13 ?

2010-06-16 Thread Brian Mury
On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 10:31 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: > I'm not having any issues with Firefox and don't use Evolution. My big > issue is with Rhythmbox, but it's a continuing issue from F12. > Sometimes, it just stops playing and requires a "killall" or force-quit > to shut it down. Does this ha

Re: Evolution oddities in F13

2010-06-05 Thread Brian Mury
On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 19:33 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > * The new-mail indicator in the notification area doesn't show up. > (I asked about this before, but nobody replied. Do I now need > the separate mail-notification) I hadn't noticed, but you are right. I just trie

Re: kernel-devel problem (broken link, no PAE) [SOLVED]

2010-05-30 Thread Brian Mury
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 14:47 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: > Try 'yum install kernel-PAE-devel'. I had looked for kernel-PAE-devel in the gnome packagekit application, it wasn't there. Yum found it. I have no idea why the packagekit application didn't show it - but now that it is installed, it does sh

kernel-devel problem (broken link, no PAE)

2010-05-30 Thread Brian Mury
I am trying to build the VirtualBox kernel module. It fails with this error: Makefile:159: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR= and run Make again. Stop. In /lib/modules/2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686.PAE there is a "build" symlink that links to /usr/src/k

Re: OT gmail alert -- spam or real?

2010-05-06 Thread Brian Mury
Lots of good advice already, so I won't waste bandwidth repeating it all, but I will add an item to Joanne's comment about things a reputable company wouldn't do: On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 19:25 -0700, jdow wrote: > But, the primary > good thing to learn is that the likelihood of ANY reputable company

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-02-06 Thread Brian Mury
On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 16:02 +, Terry Barnaby wrote: > I have machines with: ATI RV280, ATI RV535, ATI X300, Intel 945G and some > others. All of these have issues with F12, mainly with 3D but both the > ATI RV280 and ATI X300 cause occasional system lockup's requiring a > reboot in 2D and also

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-02-06 Thread Brian Mury
On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 12:37 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > I have a "ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (rev 01)" and I'm > running F12 with KMS enabled, 2D works perfectly, 3D is sometimes a bit > "stuttery" (i.e. it freezes on a frame for a small fraction of a second, not > enough to be

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-02-05 Thread Brian Mury
On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 01:13 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Nobody asked YOU. It was a question directed specifically to me (and I > wouldn't recommend a card which requires proprietary drivers). Kevin, on a public list, others are allowed and encouraged to chime in with their opinions! > FWIW, th

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-02-01 Thread Brian Mury
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 08:51 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > I don't have access to and r600 or r700 based cards. I have a rv280 at > home and an rv530 at work and both do 3d currently. I also have an rv280 that I have been having problems with. I'm curious if you are using kernel or user space mod

Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

2010-01-26 Thread Brian Mury
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 18:58 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Since you don't mind using closed-source drivers... :-) If the graphics card > in your machine is not integrated (ie. is replaceable), my advice is to go > buy > an nVidia card. They at least provide nonzero support for contemporary Lin

Re: Horrible artifacts in Fedora 12 and Google Earth! (fail)

2010-01-19 Thread Brian Mury
On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 23:13 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote: > Hi, is anybody using Google Earth on Fedora 12? > How is it working for you? I have really issues with Google Earth > having horrible artifacts when running Google Earth on Fedora 12. This > has been tested this Intel based graphic cards,